🚀Rocket fuel has been contaminating our food, water for years

A component of rocket fuel that has been linked to serious health issues shouldn’t be in your drinking water or food. Yet new tests by Consumer Reports have found that the chemical perchlorate—which is used in rocket fuel, missiles, explosives, airbags, and certain types of plastic—is in a wide variety of fast foods and grocery items. The highest perchlorate levels we found were in foods popular with babies and kids.