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Harmful ‘forever chemicals’ found in Band-Aids allowing direct blood contact
Washington Examiner ^ | April 3, 2024 | By Breccan F. Thies

Posted on 04/05/2024 6:59:12 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Bandages from brands such as Band-Aid and Curad have been found to contain dangerous levels of toxic “forever chemicals,” allowing direct contact with the bloodstream through open wounds, according to a new report.

Of the 40 bandages from 18 different brands tested by environmental health and consumer watchdog Mamavation and Environmental Health News, 26 had detectable levels of organic fluorine, an indicator of harmful “forever chemicals,” also known as PFAS.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: bandages; bandaids; chemicals; foreverchemicals; pfas
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To: ConservativeStatement

21 posted on 04/05/2024 8:55:27 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Meanwhile they dump gallons of inorganic fluorine compounds into our water supplies and put it in our toothpaste.

I got a feeling that after running it through our bodies more of it turns into ‘organic fluorides’ than you could get off of a million bandaids.


22 posted on 04/05/2024 9:39:34 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: ConservativeStatement

Band-aid brand. Invented in
1920. 104 proven effective
years of use. There hasn’t
been a kid born that
hasn’t adorned hundreds
of them.
My grandmother passed
away at the same age
(102) of natural? causes
with a Band-aid on her
arm from the IV.


23 posted on 04/05/2024 10:56:00 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Good duct tape.


24 posted on 04/06/2024 1:55:10 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: daniel1212

Cures warts...


25 posted on 04/06/2024 3:06:13 AM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦....We are in the later stages of a Communist takeover...)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Proof that it is best to buy generic


26 posted on 04/06/2024 5:21:10 AM PDT by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Maybe I’m just cynical but my guess is that someone with something to sell is trying to displace BandAid and Curad.


27 posted on 04/06/2024 5:46:53 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: VTenigma

I most often use paper towel and duct tape. That sucka sticks forever and can stand up to the heavy abuse of my work day and then some.


28 posted on 04/06/2024 5:49:39 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Forever Love.

Forever Damnation.


29 posted on 04/06/2024 6:00:53 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: ConservativeStatement

Who the hell are mamavation and environmental news?
Never heard of them.
Can’t be too great


30 posted on 04/06/2024 6:33:50 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: Fester Chugabrew
So many things to be afraid of and upset about. So little time.

... and so very much ignorance. People who now will be truly frightened by using BandAids and Curads (after all, "experts say..." and "studies show...") and yet these same fools will willingly subject themselves (and their children!) -- time and again -- to a demonstrated potentially lethal "vaccine."

31 posted on 04/06/2024 6:39:56 AM PDT by glennaro (2024: The Year of The Reckoning, lest our Republic succumb to the "progressive" disease of the Left)
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To: VTenigma
I usually use a shop towel and electrical tape. I’m sure there’s no harmful “forever” chemicals in those.

E-tape is normally made from PVC, and PFAS 'contamination' is part of making PVC. So it almost certainly has PFAS in it.

Then stuff like plumber's tape (pipe-thread tape) is pretty much straight PFAS.
32 posted on 04/22/2024 9:52:09 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Svartalfiar

I guess I’ll Have to switch to “Monster Blue” then and move away from “Scotch 33”.


33 posted on 04/22/2024 10:00:33 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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