Synthetic 'forever chemical' linked to liver cancer

Medical Xpress / Keck School of Medicine of USC / JHEP Reports ^ | August 8, 2022 | Jesse Goodrich, Ph.D. et al

[ConservativeMind]

There are water filters that take this out, but we might do better, if concerned, by replacing old Teflon pans with about any of the newer pan coatings in the past ten years.

[ConservativeMind]

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[SpaceBar]

So just when you thought they ran out of stuff for us to worry about...

[Arcadian Empire]

Which water filters do you recommend?

[Olog-hai]

Keck School of Medicine of USC …

Praise Keck??

[ifinnegan]

Ever since I was a little kid leftists have pushed one fear after another. Always something caused by capitalist business.

[Bikkuri]

"Keck School of Medicine of USC …"

Maybe they misspelled KeK.

[Deaf Smith]

If you have been alive and eating since the early 70s, the stuff has already accumulated inside your body.

[nascarnation]

I grew up in Cleveland downwind of the Standard Oil refinery and three steel plants. Not to mention swimming in Lake Erie every summer. I’m toast....

[jacknhoo]

Excerpt from another article that names the products:

PFCs: Global Contaminants
2003

“But in the past five years, the multi-billion dollar “perfluorochemical” (PFC) industry, which underpins such world-famous brands as Teflon, Stainmaster, Scotchgard and Gore-Tex, has emerged as a regulatory priority for scientists and officials at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).”

https://www.ewg.org/research/pfcs-global-contaminants

[null and void]

Always something caused by capitalist business.

That being said, years ago 3M found that the active ingredient in Scotchguard™ didn't break down in the environment.

There was absolutely no evidence that this was in any way harmful, and being darned near chemically inert, no reason to expect that it was on any level.

What did 3M do?

They pulled Scotchguard™ from the market. There was no requirement that they do this. There was no expectation that there ever would be a compelling reason to remove this chemical from their products.

They walked away from a very profitable and highly useful product out of a simple and straightforward abundance of caution.

If this is the first you've heard of this, consider, they did the right thing simply because it was the right thing, and didn't feel the slightest need to virtue signal.

Major props to 3M in my book!

[null and void]

The currently marketed Scotchguard™ was long since reformulated to exclude PFAS.

[DannyTN]

After watching this, I bought a Zerowater filter. But I haven't used it. I bought it in case of SHTF.

Best Water Filter? Brita, ZeroWater, PUR, Berkey, Aquaphor, AquaTrue

[mewzilla]

Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Facemasks: Potential Source of Human Exposure to PFAS with Implications for Disposal to Landfills

[Hostage]

Thanks for posting.

[Still Thinking]

If it’s inert enough to last ‘forever’, how can it be carcinogenic?

[David Moser]

In other words the Organic folk were right all along . Chemicals come with problems . The manipulation of the natural always carries a penalty . The whole gene manipulation thing is a Pandora’s Box that will eventually bite us right in the butt . And you just thought the raid on Trumps place was the worst thing you would hear today .

[ConservativeMind]

Activated charcoal (with a fair amount of media), ion-exchange, and reverse osmosis can all do well with these, from my reading.

https://nicholas.duke.edu/news/not-all-home-drinking-water-filters-completely-remove-toxic-pfas

I personally have a heavy undersink KDF 85 filter with activated charcoal for our kitchen. It is supposed to reduce these types of compounds by 96%, but reverse osmosis can do even better. We have a good municipal water supply and really got it just for taste and some peace of mind. It lasts three years with no maintenance.

[NetAddicted]

Read later.

[pangaea6]

We use stainless steel and cast iron