Aluminum Foil vs White Butcher Paper 18" x 12000" Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish: which is safer?
Idl Packaging White Butcher Paper 18" x 12000" Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish is the clear pick. Kroger Aluminum Foil carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
Kroger
Aluminum Foil
PFAS grade
Poor 25/100
Overall grade
Bad 17/100
Verdict
Skip
Hazard flags
⚑ 2
Material
aluminum foil with grease-resistant coating
Confidence
45%
PossibleAluminum leaching
PossiblePFAS in grease-resistant coating
Our pick
IDL Packaging
White Butcher Paper 18" x 12000" Natural Butcher Paper Roll for Meat and Fish
PFAS grade
Excellent 95/100
Overall grade
Excellent 91/100
Verdict
Buy
Hazard flags
⚑ 1
Material
unbleached natural kraft paper
Confidence
78%
PossibleMold or microbial growth
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Aluminum leaching and PFAS in grease-resistant coating on the Kroger and not on the IDL Packaging.
- We flag Mold or microbial growth on the IDL Packaging and not on the Kroger.
- The Kroger is aluminum foil with grease-resistant coating where the IDL Packaging is unbleached natural kraft paper, 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 Kroger 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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