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.
I agree with you, but PFAS/“Forever Chemicals” and micro/nano plastics are different things with their own host of concerns.
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.
Born too late to be made of lead or asbestos, born just in time to be made of microplastics.
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.
“Three things people in this world consume more than almost anyone else now poison you.”
Hooray.
Next up. Do you drink water? Turns out its all poison now!
Soon:
How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core Commie works.
I mean, based on the amount of bottled water people drink im pretty sure that could be a concern for most people. I don’t drink water bottled in plastic because I think it’s wasteful and contributes to the massive amount of plastic pollution already going on, but even if we consider that the recycling process is 100% efficient, those thin, flimsy bottles are still getting heated by and exposed to sunlight. It would be naive to think they aren’t leaching plastics into the water. Just buy a cheap metal bottle and refill from the tap. That’s where all the major brands get their water from anyway.
Coffee, eggs, white rice
Selection bias much?
If you don’t consume any of those 3 you’re probably ridiculously wealthy on some freaky diet.
All this says to me is “The food of the masses is contaminated” which yeah - we already knew the rich pay a premium to get less contaminated food.
I went to Kazakhstan and people there don’t eat any of those things
The traditional foodstuffs are flour and meat, with a lot of things made from milk
Call me crazy but I don’t think traditional Kazakh diets were part of the study of 3000 pregnant mothers in New Hampshire.
Of course not, I’m just saying your don’t need to eat those foods to survive
Coffee and rice? Just fucking kill me already, lol
