New research aimed at identifying foods that contain higher levels of PFAS found people who eat more white rice, coffee, eggs and seafood typically showed more of the toxic chemicals in their plasma and breast milk.
The study checked samples from 3,000 pregnant mothers, and is among the first research to suggest coffee and white rice may be contaminated at higher rates than other foods. It also identified an association between red meat consumption and levels of PFOS, one of the most common and dangerous PFAS compounds.
“The results definitely point toward the need for environmental stewardship, and keeping PFAS out of the environment and food chain,” said Megan Romano, a Dartmouth researcher and lead author. “Now we’re in a situation where they’re everywhere and are going to stick around even if we do aggressive remediation.”
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The guardian is lower credibility? I guess I should get all my information from OAN or FOX, huh?
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I assume MFBR was supposed to be MFBC, and you can see their summary of why they assessed the Guardian that way Here
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I liked it. The guardian is awful. Like the huffington post. It’s the other side of the coin from Fox News, etc. Lemmy just doesn’t like being reminded that progressives have biased news sources too.
I don’t always notice the source at first, so this was a good reminder.
It’s the other side of the coin from Fox News
It’s absolutely not.
First, they don’t just make shit up. Second, they’re very comfortable with center-left neoliberal ideology but anything to the left of that really upsets them.
Opposite of Fox News would be The Onion because they both make up shit
Reality has a left leaning bias
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You can also just post the 4-5 data items without claiming that this is low or high credibility or bias. Then let the people make the decision. Like this maybe:
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The actual source is a study. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969724033047?dgcid=coauthor#s0040
Assuming that research is accurate, and also given that those 3 things make up a huge portion of my diet, then I’m probably mostly made of PFAS these days.
Same, except I eat brown and red rice instead of white. I also stopped buying pre-peeled shrimp because I read it has the highest level of microplastics among seafood.
Why would when a shrimp is peeled matter? They’re presumably already dead when they’re peeled.
My guess is the flesh can absorb plastics from packaging
Probably all of the above.
Probably during processing. If they are peeled by hand, the workers are likely wearing plastic gloves.
I think we all are, unfortunately.
Born too late to be made of lead or asbestos, born just in time to be made of microplastics.
Asbestos and lead are still everywhere, unfortunately.
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Despite all this terrible news about plastics, we still won’t go after the oil companies or plastic producers in the US to help put a stop to this.
It would be inconvenient for the economy if we started prioritizing people.
Yes, of course, I mean just stop… Eating fucking rice first!
That is much better than those long and boring legal battles anyway. Who even eats rice or eggs or drinks coffee?
I agree with you, but PFAS/“Forever Chemicals” and micro/nano plastics are different things with their own host of concerns.
They go hand in hand with a lot of plastic packaging. Either way, it’d be nice to go after companies like DuPont, Bayer, 3M, and Honeywell as well as the oil companies that provide them the raw materials anyway.
California has been going after DuPont for PFAS for a couple years now.
PFAS-fouled sewage sludge, which is used as a cheap alternative to fertilizer
People still do that, with all the hormones and heavy metals? Modern human is above wolfes and sharkes in the food chain.
Eww, who eats wolfes?
At least medieval people did eat dogs and cats ocasionally. And foxes & co.
Yes, but wolves?
Taste like dog.
The PFAS and plastics boundary lines in fossil records will be indeed very distinct.
PFAS-fouled sewage sludge, which is used as a cheap alternative to fertilizer
Well, considering that toilet paper is full of PFAS to help it break down super easily, yeah, I’m not surprised.
Either make TP without PFAS, which will make it jam up pipes more, or use a bidet.
Or stop flushing fucking toilet paper down the toilet.
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What else would you do with it?
Basically my ideal breakfast…
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It really is starting to feel like Reddit around here 😊🥹
So far I haven’t seen beer and cigarettes on any of these lists.
The only safe foods are beef wheat potatoes and high fructose corn syrup.
Probably because those are not food.
Pfft. Tell that to my liver
I see someone’s never had a delicious cigarette salad.
Feel like the real underdog here is seafood.
Like, we know toxins concentrate in water creatures. That’s why you’ll see way more warnings about fish you harvest on any DNR page than you will deer.
Excuse my, but my only toxicity is in my attitude, thank you very much.
My ink is PFAS-free.
You’re an air squid, your exposure is limited.
coffee
Ffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck…
I would rather die than give up the coffee
A lot of the world will die if they give up rice.
Obviously, they should start eating cake.
Are you suggesting we begin sharpening large blades?
Are you trying to help me sharpen, or get my account banned from this right-leaning new community?
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No no, I’m just trying to make sure your kitchen is at its best. I do have some suggestions for how to build a knife block though…
I have found the bones of the rich to be too brittle to build with. Alas, you cannot mention such things in this community. Civil unrest is strictly prohibited!
But this is my entire diet…
“Three things people in this world consume more than almost anyone else now poison you.”
Hooray.
Next up. Do you drink water? Turns out its all poison now!
Oops! All PFAS!
I mean, based on the amount of bottled water people drink im pretty sure that could be a concern for most people. I don’t drink water bottled in plastic because I think it’s wasteful and contributes to the massive amount of plastic pollution already going on, but even if we consider that the recycling process is 100% efficient, those thin, flimsy bottles are still getting heated by and exposed to sunlight. It would be naive to think they aren’t leaching plastics into the water. Just buy a cheap metal bottle and refill from the tap. That’s where all the major brands get their water from anyway.
Of course, that tap water is probably filled with PFAS.
It’s PFAS all the way down.
Got PDFs in my bones. Adobe pls.
Someone already mentioned this indirectly but I think this correlation is because all three items mentioned go on to be cooked in cookware coated in PTFE or mixed with spatulas and other utensils coated in PTFE.
PTFE is indispensable for high tech uses such as well almost all processes where high temperature near water boiling point is required. 100 to 200C for example. Now, because of its original use as a food process coating, PTFE is about to be banned in a stupid way.
I much rather have it banned from food use articles and allow it for use in niche technology. That would make the material more expensive and so less profitable to use in stupid uses where other materials are available.
