Posted on 01/05/2022 11:33:41 AM PST by algore
The anti-fogging sprays and cloths that have become popular to help stop glasses from steaming up when wearing a face mask may be exposing users to carcinogens.
That is the warning from Duke University-led experts, who found these treatments may contain cancer-causing per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS).
The team subjected four anti-fogging sprays and five anti-fogging cloths — all of which have received top ratings on Amazon — to high-resolution mass spectrometry.
Specifically, the chemical analysis found that all nine products contained so-called fluorotelomer alcohols (FTOHs) and fluorotelomer ethoxylates (FTEOs).
These are two types of PFAS that have, until now, largely flown under the radar — meaning that scientists are not certain what health impacts they may carry.
However, research has suggested that, once inhaled or absorbed via the skin, FTOHs could well break down in the body into other, long-lived and toxic forms of PFAS.
Such may include perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), which — along with perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) — has been linked to disorders like cancer.
The study was carried out by environmental scientist Nicholas Herkert of Duke University in North Carolina and his colleagues.
'Our tests show the sprays contain up to 20.7 milligrams of PFAS per millilitre of solution, which is a pretty high concentration,' Dr Herkert said.
'If we were to assume that FTOHs and FTEOs have similar toxicity to PFOA and PFOS, then one spray from these bottles would expose you to PFAS at levels that are several orders of magnitude higher than you’d receive from drinking a litre of water that contains PFAS at the current EPA health advisory limit for safe consumption, which is 70 nanograms per litre.'
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We are all going to die……everyone
Yep. The better and safer solution is not to wear a mask. I’m good with socially distancing, and after watching the mask wearers (who touch/move their masks constantly), rely on hand sanitizer for myself. I likely had COVID almost exactly two years ago. If I’ve had it again, I really didn’t know.
The Evil Media: ALWAYS try to increase pain for the common person, day by day. It’s a communist directive.
So leave your glasses dirty and die in a car wreck.
It’s always something. The press lives for disaster, death and unhappiness and they’ve done a great job of depressing most of the country.
I always wonder if people who drive their cars while wearing masks on have mental disorders.
That’s why you have to tune out the lying news media...Life is too damn short for a stead diet of panic peddlers selling fear and death.
May or Could are not scientific answers.
May or Could are not scientific answers.
Everyone will look like they used Opti-grab glasses
Certainly equal to the flimsy science behind wearing the mask in the first place.
May or Could are not scientific answers.
Neither are mask mandates, or covid ‘vax’ conjectures
“fluorotelomer ethoxylates” Sounds dangerous to me and I’m no chemist.
On another subject, It never ceases to amaze me that the many many people who will not consume GMO foods because they are
“dangerous” to their health, willingly line up to have the mRNA experimental shot into their bodies and reprogram their DNA to make “safe” spike proteins. Fascinating........
We don’t have a virus problem, we have a stupid problem and it is an epidemic of massive proportions.
Don’t wonder, they ARE mentally ill.
It’s always something.
I fixed that problem.
I stopped wearing masks.
I feel certain they do.
Again, may cause, or could cause. Not scientific.
Eyeglasses fogging up while wearing a mask means the mask is not fitted properly.
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