Grease Resistant Paper vs Member's Mark Heavy Duty Food Service Foil: which is safer?
Member's Mark Heavy Duty Food Service Foil is the clear pick. Grease Resistant Paper carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
Safeseal
Grease Resistant Paper
PFAS grade
Poor 25/100
Overall grade
Bad 0/100
Verdict
Skip
Hazard flags
⚑ 3
Material
paper with unspecified grease-resistant coating
Confidence
35%
PossibleCoating leaching (non-PFAS compounds)
PossibleThermal degradation of coating
LikelyUnknown coating toxicity
Our pick
Sam's Club
Member's Mark Heavy Duty Food Service Foil
PFAS grade
Good 70/100
Overall grade
Good 66/100
Verdict
Buy
Hazard flags
⚑ 1
Material
Aluminum foil
Confidence
82%
PossibleAluminum leaching from acidic foods
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Coating leaching (non-PFAS compounds), Thermal degradation of coating and Unknown coating toxicity on the Safeseal and not on the Sam's Club.
- We flag Aluminum leaching from acidic foods on the Sam's Club and not on the Safeseal.
- The Safeseal is paper with unspecified grease-resistant coating where the Sam's Club is Aluminum foil, which is most of the difference in these two grades.
- The gap is 45 points, wide enough that this is not a close call, and the Sam's Club is the one to buy.
- We are less certain about the Safeseal 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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