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PFAS coated. Many products including floss, contact lenses, tampons, weatherproof gear also.

"In February 2024, the FDA announced that substances containing PFAS used as grease-proofing agents on paper and paperboard for food contact use are no longer being sold by manufacturers into the U.S. market." [0]

[0] https://www.fda.gov/food/process-contaminants-food/authorize...

They could be sitting on ten years of supply.

We learned around 2020 that wasn't the case.

Did we? 2020 data is useless and irrelevant anyway since the governmental efforts to stop its production came later, corresponding with industry efforts to bulk up its production before the governmental pressure took effect.

A fascinating display of confidence unburdened by evidence. Basically the intellectual equivalent of arguing that gravity “probably took a few years to kick in.”

Are you actually saying that companies were predicting government regulation years in advance and preemptively cranking out bulk PFAS-coated paper just in case? Because, of course, that’s what every industry does: mass-produce soon-to-be-banned chemicals for fun and profit.

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