Posted on 01/21/2023 1:20:14 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Eating just one freshwater fish a year can dramatically increase the amount of toxic forever chemicals coursing through a person's blood, according to a new study that reflects more than a half-century of pollution contaminating the Great Lakes and rivers nationwide.
The alarming finding is based on an analysis of hundreds of fish caught by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since 2013.
Nearly every fish tested by the EPA was tainted with perfluorooctane sulfonate or PFOS, a forever chemical used for decades in Scotchgard stain-resistant fabrics, firefighting foam and food packaging manufactured by Minnesota-based 3M.
PFOS builds up in human blood, doesn't break down in the environment and triggers health problems such as liver damage, impaired fertility, immune system disorders, thyroid disease, increased cholesterol levels and reduced vaccine effectiveness. Long-term exposure also might cause cancer.
A single serving of freshwater fish during a year is equivalent to drinking water laden with 48 parts per trillion of PFOS for a month, Andrews and his colleagues concluded.
To put that number into context, the nationwide median of PFOS in drinking water is estimated to be less than 5 ppt. The highest concentration detected in Chicago drinking water so far is 2.8 ppt.
In June, the EPA announced there is effectively no safe exposure to PFOS and a related chemical, PFOA.
Freshwater fish in the United States appear to be significantly more contaminated than seafood. The median concentration of forever chemicals in the EPA testing was 278 times higher than what the Food and Drug Administration found during the past four years in saltwater fish, shrimp, lobster, clams and oysters.
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Sure they are.
Just like the vaccines were “safe and effective “, right?
sounds fishy... 🤔
About the same as four or five vaxx shots.
It’s funny how my grandmother lived to be in her nineties, and and a lot of other relatives too, when they all ate fish from freshwater lakes. I think this is yet another attempt to destroy hobby fishing and hunting.
Yeah. Depends where.
I still have a lot of Walleye in the freezer I caught in Lake St Clair, very tasty. Plan to continue to eat. And catch more next season.
And we often get fresh water perch on Fridays, Had it a week ago.
Luckily I’m upstream from Detroit.
THANK YOU!
I was reading the article, and when I got to 48 ppt, my reaction was “why are we talking about this?”
Heck, VX nerve gas is fatal with 10s of milligrams. I don’t think eating a fish at 48 ppt would get you anywhere near that.
This is bureaucrats creating job security.
The Ocean is the Ultimate Solution
Please explain how they are to do that?
The effects are so small, they are difficult for the government to detect, with huge amounts over decades, and enormous advances in our ability to detect extraordinarily tiny amounts.
Broken down to their base elements, all chemicals are forever.
Most every man-made compounds are also found in nature.
Did you hear about Camp LeJuene?
The last article about this had the headline that said something like “All Freshwater Fish in USA are Contaminated.”
Thank goodness I only eat fish imported from China and India.
“Did you hear about Camp LeJuene?”
Daily, there are all these nice law firms who advertise that they want to help.
“Most every man-made compounds are also found in nature.”
Fact check: Mostly False.
While today every man-made compound is found in “nature” today
200 years ago most of these compounds did not exist anywhere on earth.
For my health I guess I’ll have to transition to eating Chinese farm raised fish.
Democrats are poisoning meat to force us either to die or eat insects/lab cultured freaks of science
MT and WY streams are fine by me.
Here’s the Money Quote, Kids!
“...and reduced vaccine effectiveness.”
Funny how this ‘study’ came about whole the bodies pile up due to Vaxx issues. *Rolleyes*
It’s not the Vaxx! Those people ate FISH!
I’m not giving up my Canada-caught Walleye. Nope. Not gonna happen. I’ll risk it. :)
Do the freshwater fish eat freshwater fish?
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They do. I took a picture of a huge striped bass that choked to death on another fish in the Colorado River.
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