Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body
Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body
US study that researchers say highlights chemicals’ ubiquity also shows PFAS association with seafood and red meat
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 actual source is a study. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969724033047?dgcid=coauthor#s0040
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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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.
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.
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?
California has been going after DuPont for PFAS for a couple years now.
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.
"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!
Soon:
How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
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.
Oops! All PFAS!
Coffee, eggs, white rice
Selection bias much?
If you don't consume any of those 3 you're probably ridiculously wealthy on some freaky diet.
All this says to me is "The food of the masses is contaminated" which yeah - we already knew the rich pay a premium to get less contaminated food.
Coffee and rice? Just fucking kill me already, lol
Or:
I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie world Life in plastic, it's fantastic~
Yeah seriously! These three things are literally my daily staples.
Eat brown rice?
Is that because of the food products themselves, or because of the non-stick coatings frequently used to package/cook/brew/prepare them?
Because of their ubiquitous usage and environmental persistence, humans are exposed to a variety of PFAS, primarily through ingestion of contaminated water and food, though PFAS have also been detected in air, indoor dust, and consumer products (Domingo and Nadal, 2017; Sunderland et al., 2019).
While certain communities can be highly exposed to PFAS due to proximity to an industrial site or occupational exposure, PFAS exposure is ubiquitous among human populations, with 98 % of the U.S. population having detectable concentrations of PFAS in their blood (Calafat et al., 2007; National Center for Environmental Health Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 2023).
Thanks!
This is our generation's lead
In coffee, researchers suspect that the beans, water used for brewing, or soil could be contaminated. Previous research has also found coffee filters to be treated with PFAS, and paper cups or other food packaging also commonly contain the chemicals.
I'd guess it could also be K Cups and non-dairy creamer, but who knows
At this point everything on earth is contaminated with PFAS, PFOS, PFOA etc etc.
For too long gov'ts just let the industries do what they wanted without any real oversight.
I'd like to see the data about coffee also.
Data from the study.
So far I haven't seen beer and cigarettes on any of these lists.
Probably because those are not food.
Pfft. Tell that to my liver
I see someone's never had a delicious cigarette salad.
Huxley warned us that the things we love would kill us but I'd don't think he thought it would be like this particular case.
But this is my entire diet...
That's basically the Latino diet. I'm fucked.
Basically my ideal breakfast…
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It really is starting to feel like Reddit around here 😊🥹
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.
You've gotta be fucking kidding me. NOTHING IS SAFE ANYMORE GODDAMNIT
Nothing is safe, except the huge wealth advantage of billionaires.
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.
What else would you do with it?
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The PFAS and plastics boundary lines in fossil records will be indeed very distinct.
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.
Got PDFs in my bones. Adobe pls.
I don't know how I would face the day without white rice...
Honestly I doubt it matters. They'll just keep adding more things to the list, this shit is everywhere.
I don't know what I'd do without coffee
I actually did manage to sub out coffee for tea, and can now go a day without caffeine for the first time since college. It's kind of an empowering feeling, that I would recommend.
I just made a batch of white rice, once cooked I freeze it on baking paper. Not long ago I looked into baking paper, it's loaded with some kind of plastic non-stick chemicals.
its a good thing i don't drink coffee.
Now i can pretend i don't consume the other things listed here instead!
Your regular reminder that Teflon (PTFE) microplastics are completely harmless and are by far the most common PFAS in the environment
Completely harmless? Doubt it.
Do you have a source handy for that?
The literature on PTFEs illustrates that it is, at best, uncertain whether there are health harms relating to contact and ingestion. Most of the studies struggle with confounds, controls, and sample sizes because almost literally everyone has been exposed to PTFEs. Toxicity researchers would not definitively agree that it is "completely harmless".
The other commenter is right, also, that PFOA and GenX (the chemical, not the generation) are more evidently harmful and both involved in, and released from, the creation of PTFE.
Just throwing this out here in case someone is like "wait, IS Teflon fine???"
Yes, except in order to make PTFE you have to use PFAS ... so it's a double-edged sword.