The FDA is rumbling that wooden onion crates may need to give way to plastic, although defenders say wooden crates have a good safety record in actual use. . . .
In June, after an outcry, the FDA backed off hints that it would end the age-old practice of aging cheese on wooden boards.
I don’t know what to think of the idea that plastics are contaminating our food and thus harming us. But the FDA’s continued insistence that our food come into even more contact with plastic is beginning to convince me.