Researchers: Asian Americans have significantly higher exposure to toxic PFAS

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14 points·PaulHoule··6 comments

Based on these findings, these researches believe that exposure sources, such as dietary sources and occupational exposure, may underlie the disparities in exposure burden.

Ok. Why? What aspect of diet heightens exposure? Soy rich diet? Ratio of highly processed food to raw? Occupational I can understand, if Asian Americans work in clothing, plastics, packaging and assembly they'd be handling PFAS rich materials.

Worrisome.

Tl;dr: we found a correlation, and we speculate at a cause.

It sounds like you'd need a longitudinal study.

True, would be great to understand to help everyone’s mitigation. Could also be more foods wrapped in plastics, more Teflon pan usage, more seafood, geographical distribution.

>more Teflon pan usage

Perhaps it is the use of teflon-coated rice cookers that is higher among Asians. Chinese/Korean grocery stores have high-end automatic rice cookers for sale, and all of them have layers of non-stick coating around the metal cooking insert that are much thicker than what you find on the average non-stick pan.

Now that you mention it I don't think I've ever heard of the thickness of non-stick coating being advertised in English language media.

Maybe it's a selling feature abroad?

Complete anecdote: but the rice cooker/air fryer my gf (Vietnamese) uses is heavily coated in PFAS. We use those almost every day.

Not sure how this correlates with the average American use of non-stick pans.

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