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.”
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
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.
The PFAS and plastics boundary lines in fossil records will be indeed very distinct.
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 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.
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