White Butcher Paper 18" x 12000" Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish vs Deli Honey Ham: which is safer?

Idl Packaging White Butcher Paper 18" x 12000" Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish is the clear pick. Hormel Deli Honey Ham carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.

Our pick

Idl Packaging White Butcher Paper 18" x 12000" Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish

IDL Packaging

White Butcher Paper 18" x 12000" Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish

PFAS grade

Excellent 95/100

Overall grade

Excellent 87/100

Verdict

Buy

Hazard flags

⚑ 2

Material

natural kraft butcher paper, no coating specified

Confidence

78%

PossibleBleach residue and chlorine compounds

PossibleMold or microbial contamination in storage

Hormel Deli Honey Ham

Hormel

Deli Honey Ham

PFAS grade

Poor 25/100

Overall grade

Bad 0/100

Verdict

Skip

Hazard flags

⚑ 4

Material

plastic film packaging with grease-resistant coating

Confidence

45%

LikelyPFAS in grease-resistant coating

PossiblePlastic film degradation and migration

ReportedSodium nitrite/nitrate as curing agent

Where these two actually differ

  • We flag Bleach residue and chlorine compounds and Mold or microbial contamination in storage on the IDL Packaging and not on the Hormel.
  • We flag PFAS in grease-resistant coating, Plastic film degradation and migration, Sodium nitrite/nitrate as curing agent and Bacterial contamination risk from packaging breaches on the Hormel and not on the IDL Packaging.
  • The IDL Packaging is natural kraft butcher paper, no coating specified where the Hormel is plastic film packaging with grease-resistant coating, which is most of the difference in these two grades.
  • The gap is 70 points, wide enough that this is not a close call, and the IDL Packaging is the one to buy.
  • We are less certain about the Hormel grade, at 45% confidence against 78%, because it discloses less.

Both products run through the same public rubric, which covers materials, coatings, brand disclosure, lab findings, and recalls, plus a beyond-PFAS hazard analysis. Grades are model-based estimates, not lab tests. How grades work →

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