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How do we determine the long term safety without first scaling it up? All of these things many seem innocent in a lab setting and it is only once they reach a c
by irrational 4y ago
How do we determine the long term safety without first scaling it up? All of these things many seem innocent in a lab setting and it is only once they reach a critical point that the issues arise.
- HidyBush 4y agoUsually if something is being eroded you check what chemicals the erosion releases. If you cook on a pan and you don't analyze the contents of the fumes you are totally responsible
- gambiting 4y agoThe problem isn't that no one knew what's in the fumes and that those chemicals are being eaten/inhaled. It's that in laboratory testing they never showed any impact on humans - but scale it to few billion people and then you notice increased liver cancer rates. The only good thing is that making non stick pans with this stuff has already been banned in US and EU for a good while.
- Retric 4y agoLeaded gasoline and a few others seemed really unsafe at the time of introduction.
- xchaotic 4y agoExactly - lead was known to cause harm since well late Roman times I guess.