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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It’s the other side of the coin from Fox News
It’s absolutely not.
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Opposite of Fox News would be The Onion because they both make up shit
Reality has a left leaning bias
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The guardian is lower credibility? I guess I should get all my information from OAN or FOX, huh?
What the fuck is MFBR and why should I give a shit what it thinks? How do I know it’s not biased?
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That’s basically the Latino diet. I’m fucked.
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.
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.
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.
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.
California has been going after DuPont for PFAS for a couple years now.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
its a good thing i don’t drink coffee.
Now i can pretend i don’t consume the other things listed here instead!
I don’t know how I would face the day without white rice…
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.
Honestly I doubt it matters. They’ll just keep adding more things to the list, this shit is everywhere.
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.
