Member's Mark Heavy Duty Food Service Foil vs Butcher Paper for Wrapping Meat: which is safer?
Member's Mark Heavy Duty Food Service Foil is the clear pick. Butcher Paper for Wrapping Meat carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
Our pick
Sam's Club
Member's Mark Heavy Duty Food Service Foil
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleAluminum leaching from acidic foods
Schwartz Brothers
Butcher Paper for Wrapping Meat
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
LikelyPFAS in grease-resistant coating
PossibleCoating degradation and particle shedding
PossibleMicroplastic or coating particle transfer
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Aluminum leaching from acidic foods on the Sam's Club and not on the Schwartz Brothers.
- We flag PFAS in grease-resistant coating, Coating degradation and particle shedding and Microplastic or coating particle transfer on the Schwartz Brothers and not on the Sam's Club.
- The Sam's Club is Aluminum foil where the Schwartz Brothers is kraft paper with grease-resistant coating, 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 Schwartz Brothers grade, at 45% 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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