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

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

Our pick

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

IDL Packaging

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

PFAS grade

Excellent 95/100

Overall grade

Excellent 91/100

Verdict

Buy

Hazard flags

⚑ 1

Material

bleached paper, uncoated

Confidence

82%

PossibleMold or microbial growth during storage

Deli Paper Sheets

Deli Paper Sheets

PFAS grade

Poor 25/100

Overall grade

Bad 0/100

Verdict

Skip

Hazard flags

⚑ 3

Material

paper with grease-resistant coating (unspecified)

Confidence

35%

PossibleGrease-resistant coating leaching (non-PFAS migration)

PossibleCoating degradation and flaking

LikelyIndirect PFAS exposure pathway

Where these two actually differ

  • We flag Mold or microbial growth during storage on the IDL Packaging and not on the .
  • We flag Grease-resistant coating leaching (non-PFAS migration), Coating degradation and flaking and Indirect PFAS exposure pathway on the and not on the IDL Packaging.
  • The IDL Packaging is bleached paper, uncoated where the is paper with grease-resistant coating (unspecified), 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 grade, at 35% confidence against 82%, because it discloses less.

Both products run through the same public rubric: 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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