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Those are toxic. There are no known negative health effects from pfas or microplastics.

• ratg13 3y ago
  You are totally neglecting the difficulty of conducting a 40-year randomized trial that is able to control for all other factors.
• thorncorona 3y ago
  lol. imagine having a device capable of searching through the sum of humanity’s knowledge at your fingertips, and making a statement like this.
• f_devd 3y ago
  They are toxic because your body can't deal with them, microplastics are -maybe counterintuitively- still large enough to only cause smaller issues like indigestion. For the problems with pfas, read any source from the rest of this thread. In the end if your body could get rid of X, X generally isn't a problem. Sometimes it's chemical (i.e. lead/carbonmonoxide/etc) sometimes it's physical (i.e. asbestos/microplastics), accumulating enough of anything not meant to be processed/disposed in your body will be a problem.
  • thorncorona 3y ago
    the bigger issue with micro plastics is that they are very good ways for transporting other, more toxic, chemicals, into your body.
• CraftingLinks 3y ago
  I thought the detrimental effects of pfas on immunity was accepted fact by now? Even the mechanism of toxicity is well understood. Surely, we can agree that you don't need instant dead effects to establish a compound to be accepted as detrimental for your health? And not only your health, but that of your offspring as well. The internal documents of 3m and Dupont actually acknowledge as much. That's what the actual outrage is about, they already knew for decades, then tried to hide it because liability costs.