I wish Governments would do their jobs and simply ban PFAS in all products used for domestic purposes. This is a huge burden to place on individual consumers.
The ons that have been identified with these long half-life properties have not been manufactured for many years (but they are still around due to their long half-lives).
Anything with a half life of a year or more is concerning due to the near continual exposure. You'll accumulate it faster than you'll get rid of it.
Don’t use alcohol-based disinfectants after handling heat-printed receipts, it makes the BPA absorption rate through your skin go way up.
They aren't required to be eliminated, but minimized. I would be much more concerned with the duration of exposure (halflife) when working to reduce exposure given that it's impossible to completely eliminate.
I thought most/all of the PFAS is released during manufacture and not when it's being used?
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wikipedia says
>Despite DuPont's asserting that "cookware coated with DuPont Teflon non-stick coatings does not contain PFOA",[91] residual PFOA was also detected in finished PTFE products including PTFE cookware (4–75 parts per billion).[87] However, PFOA levels ranged from undetectable (<1.5) to 4.3 parts per billion in a more recent study.[48] Also, non-stick cookware is heated—which should volatilize PFOA; PTFE products that are not heated, such as PTFE sealant tape, had higher (1800 parts per billion) levels detected.[92] Overall, PTFE cookware is considered an insignificant exposure pathway to PFOA.[93][94]
I really don't understand how some companies are getting off scot-free.
The Intercept and New York Times cover the issue well.
Robert Bilott's book Exposure https://www.amazon.com/Exposure-Be-Confirmed/dp/1501172816 covers the story of the lawyer who successfully sued DuPont and is continuing that legal pursuit.
I also recommend my podcast with Robert Bilott: https://joshuaspodek.com/guests/robert-bilott
Are they breathing in rain-proof coating? Are they rubbing it on their hands and ingesting it? Is it in the household air and it makes no difference to not wear it if someone in the household else wears it?
The mechanism is not made very clear.
Then, one day coming home, out of the rain, pulling it off I wondered what all those tiny white flakes on my shirt were?
Didn't even realise it until I discovered it was that white inner lining :-)
That's pretty much all takeaway food boxes, no?
https://www.consumerreports.org/toxic-chemicals-substances/p...
Cups are typically coated with polyethylene to make them waterproof, but I think I read somewhere that they are then coated with PTFE to make them slide apart easier when stacked.
I believe it’s specifically those, not so much things like butcher paper or soda cups.