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Notwithstanding the literature that says Phthalates are also breathed and absorbed through skin, that ship has sailed for this and the few generations ahead of

• alistairSH 3y ago
  "That ship has sailed" is a bit of a cop out, no? Just because something already happened doesn't mean we shouldn't/can't change our ways going forward. The current levels of plastics might not be obviously harmful, but that doesn't mean we won't discover harm in the future. Or that we should just say "fuck it" and resign ourselves to eating plastics forever.
  • micromacrofoot 3y ago
    much of the time we don't even fix the problems that knowingly cause great harm, so I can understand the feeling of resignation
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• forward1 3y ago
  This is really important. Everyone squirting hand sanitizer at store checkouts and then handling BPA-paper receipts is a particularly good example. > commonly used hand sanitizers, as well as other skin care products, contain mixtures of dermal penetration enhancing chemicals that can increase by up to 100 fold the dermal absorption of lipophilic compounds such as BPA. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0110509 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...