New research aimed at identifying foods that contain higher levels of PFAS found people who eat more white rice, coffee, eggs and seafood typically showed more of the toxic chemicals in their plasma and breast milk.
The study checked samples from 3,000 pregnant mothers, and is among the first research to suggest coffee and white rice may be contaminated at higher rates than other foods. It also identified an association between red meat consumption and levels of PFOS, one of the most common and dangerous PFAS compounds.
“The results definitely point toward the need for environmental stewardship, and keeping PFAS out of the environment and food chain,” said Megan Romano, a Dartmouth researcher and lead author. “Now we’re in a situation where they’re everywhere and are going to stick around even if we do aggressive remediation.”
Despite all this terrible news about plastics, we still won’t go after the oil companies or plastic producers in the US to help put a stop to this.
It would be inconvenient for the economy if we started prioritizing people.
I agree with you, but PFAS/“Forever Chemicals” and micro/nano plastics are different things with their own host of concerns.
They go hand in hand with a lot of plastic packaging. Either way, it’d be nice to go after companies like DuPont, Bayer, 3M, and Honeywell as well as the oil companies that provide them the raw materials anyway.
Yes, of course, I mean just stop… Eating fucking rice first!
That is much better than those long and boring legal battles anyway. Who even eats rice or eggs or drinks coffee?
California has been going after DuPont for PFAS for a couple years now.
Assuming that research is accurate, and also given that those 3 things make up a huge portion of my diet, then I’m probably mostly made of PFAS these days.
I think we all are, unfortunately.
Born too late to be made of lead or asbestos, born just in time to be made of microplastics.
Asbestos and lead are still everywhere, unfortunately.
Thousands of tons of asbestos was released when the towers came down. :/
Same, except I eat brown and red rice instead of white. I also stopped buying pre-peeled shrimp because I read it has the highest level of microplastics among seafood.
Why would when a shrimp is peeled matter? They’re presumably already dead when they’re peeled.
Probably during processing. If they are peeled by hand, the workers are likely wearing plastic gloves.
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Lol, if not live forever then at least be preserved for eternity.
“Three things people in this world consume more than almost anyone else now poison you.”
Hooray.
Is that because of the food products themselves, or because of the non-stick coatings frequently used to package/cook/brew/prepare them?
Because of their ubiquitous usage and environmental persistence, humans are exposed to a variety of PFAS, primarily through ingestion of contaminated water and food, though PFAS have also been detected in air, indoor dust, and consumer products (Domingo and Nadal, 2017; Sunderland et al., 2019).
While certain communities can be highly exposed to PFAS due to proximity to an industrial site or occupational exposure, PFAS exposure is ubiquitous among human populations, with 98 % of the U.S. population having detectable concentrations of PFAS in their blood (Calafat et al., 2007; National Center for Environmental Health Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 2023).
Thanks!
Coffee and rice? Just fucking kill me already, lol
Or:
I’m a Barbie girl in a Barbie world Life in plastic, it’s fantastic~
Yeah seriously! These three things are literally my daily staples.
Eat brown rice?
coffee
Ffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck…
I would rather die than give up the coffee
A lot of the world will die if they give up rice.
Obviously, they should start eating cake.
Are you suggesting we begin sharpening large blades?
Are you trying to help me sharpen, or get my account banned from this right-leaning new community?
😐
No no, I’m just trying to make sure your kitchen is at its best. I do have some suggestions for how to build a knife block though…
I have found the bones of the rich to be too brittle to build with. Alas, you cannot mention such things in this community. Civil unrest is strictly prohibited!
This is our generation’s lead
So far I haven’t seen beer and cigarettes on any of these lists.
The only safe foods are beef wheat potatoes and high fructose corn syrup.
Probably because those are not food.
Pfft. Tell that to my liver
I see someone’s never had a delicious cigarette salad.
But this is my entire diet…
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Huxley warned us that the things we love would kill us but I’d don’t think he thought it would be like this particular case.
Basically my ideal breakfast…
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It really is starting to feel like Reddit around here 😊🥹
You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me. NOTHING IS SAFE ANYMORE GODDAMNIT
Nothing is safe, except the huge wealth advantage of billionaires.
The PFAS and plastics boundary lines in fossil records will be indeed very distinct.
Someone already mentioned this indirectly but I think this correlation is because all three items mentioned go on to be cooked in cookware coated in PTFE or mixed with spatulas and other utensils coated in PTFE.
PTFE is indispensable for high tech uses such as well almost all processes where high temperature near water boiling point is required. 100 to 200C for example. Now, because of its original use as a food process coating, PTFE is about to be banned in a stupid way.
I much rather have it banned from food use articles and allow it for use in niche technology. That would make the material more expensive and so less profitable to use in stupid uses where other materials are available.
