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Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

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Re: Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

#91

Being lazy here, but would love to know more about how testing for all of these plastics chemicals that are omnipresent is done in a way that ensures the measurement process or tools themselves do not contribute trace chemicals (e.g. lab tech wears latex gloves while handling the sample, whoops, etc).

They go into significant detail about their sample handling as well as documenting potential sources of contamination here: https://www.plasticlist.org/methodology

Re: Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

#93
It's hilarious how McDonalds ends up being the safest premade meals you can get (outside a big tech company cafeteria) at least from a scary plastic chemical standpoint. They actually have the resources and a big enough PR problem to spend the money to send their stuff to labs and get it tested. Everyone else solves the PR problem by just labeling their food organic and healthy instead. https://justine.lol/tmp/healthy.jpg This is all of course assuming no one discovers anything horrible about DEHT in the future, which is the new chemical they're leaning into. I get maybe 10% as many Google Scholar hits on DEHT compared to its terrifying well-studied cousin DEHP.

Re: Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

#94

I've been using a reverse osmosis water filter at home to reduce microplastics and other contaminants from my drinking and cooking water for the past few years. I am using the #1 recommended product on Buyer's Guide[1] for others who are interested. [1] https://buyersguide.org/countertop-reverse-osmosis-system/t/...

I don't want to be a downer, but given the pervasive amount of plastics in food, it seems essentially impossible to have a meaningful impact on overall plastic consumption for anyone who depends on a supermarket/restaurants for sustenance.

Re: Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

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post #89

I've been using a reverse osmosis water filter at home to reduce microplastics and other contaminants from my drinking and cooking water for the past few years. I am using the #1 recommended product on Buyer's Guide[1] for others who are interested. [1] https://buyersguide.org/countertop-reverse-osmosis-system/t/...

Of course, a reverse osmosis filter system made of...Plastic.

Honestly what else are you going to make it out of? Metal? What about rust? Horrible idea to make it out of metal.

Re: Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

#96

I've been using a reverse osmosis water filter at home to reduce microplastics and other contaminants from my drinking and cooking water for the past few years. I am using the #1 recommended product on Buyer's Guide[1] for others who are interested. [1] https://buyersguide.org/countertop-reverse-osmosis-system/t/...

> I am using the #1 recommended product on Buyer's Guide[1] for others who are interested.

I’m reading their “review” but I don’t see anything other than common ChatGPT affiliate link blog spam. The “review” is just generic filler content about water filtration, not even about this product. These websites just collect products with profitable affiliate links, run the description of the product through an LLM to get it into a standard format, and then drive traffic to their list to collect affiliate revenue.

This website hasn’t reviewed anything. They’re just tricking people into clicking links to buy expensive products that will give them affiliate ad revenue.

Please don’t encourage the proliferation of these website by linking to them or endorsing their rankings.

Re: Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

#97
post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course, a reverse osmosis filter system made of...Plastic.

Honestly what else are you going to make it out of? Metal? What about rust? Horrible idea to make it out of metal.

Is this sarcasm?

Rust is fine to consume, but there are also metals that don’t corrode in water.

Re: Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

#98

I've been using a reverse osmosis water filter at home to reduce microplastics and other contaminants from my drinking and cooking water for the past few years. I am using the #1 recommended product on Buyer's Guide[1] for others who are interested. [1] https://buyersguide.org/countertop-reverse-osmosis-system/t/...

I don't want to be a downer, but given the pervasive amount of plastics in food, it seems essentially impossible to have a meaningful impact on overall plastic consumption for anyone who depends on a supermarket/restaurants for sustenance.

I'm also vegan and buy mostly organic products and cook at home. I get your point, though. There's only so much we can do. The tofu I eat daily comes in plastic containers, unfortunately.

Re: Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

#99

I've been using a reverse osmosis water filter at home to reduce microplastics and other contaminants from my drinking and cooking water for the past few years. I am using the #1 recommended product on Buyer's Guide[1] for others who are interested. [1] https://buyersguide.org/countertop-reverse-osmosis-system/t/...

I’m not familiar with this buyers guide site. Is it critical rankings by a human or some sort of automatic ranking / SEO spam?

Re: Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

#100

Well fuck. How can I test for effects from endocrine-disrupting chemicals on my children? Are there blood tests that check for this?

You could get this plastic test: https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.com/products/microplastics-te... . I haven't tried it, but it's the only one I know of.

I don’t know what that’s measuring but TFA is about plastic chemicals like BPA, not microplastics
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