Member's Mark Heavy Duty Food Service Foil vs Greaseproof Packaging Paper: which is safer?

Member's Mark Heavy Duty Food Service Foil is the clear pick. Greaseproof Packaging Paper carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.

Our pick

Member's Mark Heavy Duty Food Service Foil

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

Greaseproof Packaging Paper

Sealpac

Greaseproof Packaging Paper

PFAS grade

Poor 25/100

Overall grade

Bad 9/100

Verdict

Skip

Hazard flags

⚑ 4

Material

Paper with grease-resistant coating, composition undisclosed

Confidence

35%

PossibleCoating composition undisclosed (general toxicity risk)

PossibleMigration of coating into food (oleophilic contact)

PossibleThermal degradation (heat exposure)

Where these two actually differ

  • We flag Aluminum leaching from acidic foods on the Sam's Club and not on the Sealpac.
  • We flag Coating composition undisclosed (general toxicity risk), Migration of coating into food (oleophilic contact), Thermal degradation (heat exposure) and Microplastics from coating degradation on the Sealpac and not on the Sam's Club.
  • The Sam's Club is Aluminum foil where the Sealpac is Paper with grease-resistant coating, composition undisclosed, 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 Sealpac 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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