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>All the various plastics we’ve all been exposed to and other various chemicals are also likely doing something too. Is this based on a study or something, or
by Clubber 4y ago
>All the various plastics we’ve all been exposed to and other various chemicals are also likely doing something too.
Is this based on a study or something, or is it more of a reaction to all the news stories about that lately? (news peddles fear without anything to back it up typically)
- lazide 4y agoI don’t follow the news anymore, but there are boatloads of studies over the last several decades showing some plastics (and commonly used plasticizers) are Not Great in various ways, from hormone interference to cancers. Most of the more obvious offenders got banned or voluntarily phased out awhile ago, but new variants of many plastics come out every year, and large swaths of existing ones are known bad but don’t commonly get used in good contact anymore so we don’t think about it. One of those ‘we’ll probably figure out which one in the basket is causing what problems in a decade or two’ situations, and how bad a problem it actually is. Hopefully no thalidomide chirality level horrors, but who knows.