Something's Poisoning America's Farms. Scientists Fear 'Forever' Chemicals
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#3I remember being the "general public" unaware of PFAS. Anything "non-stick" contains it, you realise that it's everywhere in modern society.
Blissful ignorance was nice while it lasted.
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#4What I'd worry about is not PFAs, but excreted drugs. Some drugs (or their byproducts) are persistent, and have been deliberately selected to have biological effects.
I take metformin. This drug is mostly excreted in feces. The dry mass of feces might be 1% metformin for someone taking typical doses. The drug does break down in the environment, but only slowly.
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#5I remember being the "general public" unaware of PFAS. Anything "non-stick" contains it, you realise that it's everywhere in modern society. Blissful ignorance was nice while it lasted.
Significant other was studying removal methods for those chemicals and as soon as I learned enough about them, I threw all of my non-stick pans away.
Learning to coat steel pans in oil to make them non-stick-ish has been a great help.
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#6I spent 7 years getting rid of the PFOA-derived chemical across all our product lines. they are super useful, but they cross the placental barrier and have a half-life of 6.5 years or so. They were replaced by not-PFOA chemicals that had similar chemical properties so not sure that it did a whole lot of good in the long run.
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#7I remember being the "general public" unaware of PFAS. Anything "non-stick" contains it, you realise that it's everywhere in modern society. Blissful ignorance was nice while it lasted.
Significant other was studying removal methods for those chemicals and as soon as I learned enough about them, I threw all of my non-stick pans away. Learning to coat steel pans in oil to make them non-stick-ish has been a great help.
> Learning to coat steel pans in oil to make them non-stick-ish has been a great help.
Doesn't this involve cooking oil into harmful polymers?
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#9I remember being the "general public" unaware of PFAS. Anything "non-stick" contains it, you realise that it's everywhere in modern society. Blissful ignorance was nice while it lasted.
Significant other was studying removal methods for those chemicals and as soon as I learned enough about them, I threw all of my non-stick pans away. Learning to coat steel pans in oil to make them non-stick-ish has been a great help.
Eggs over-easy on steel all-clad are the bane of my existence on some mornings.
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