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Safety is not Boolean. Things are not safe or unsafe. It's just a question of HOW safe something is, what the risks are, etc. Do we have any sense of the actua
by Nifty3929 3y ago
Safety is not Boolean. Things are not safe or unsafe. It's just a question of HOW safe something is, what the risks are, etc.
Do we have any sense of the actual amount of PFAS in rainwater, and the human health impact of such? I didn't see any mention of this in the article. Maybe more investigation along these lines would be helpful.
- alistairSH 3y agoHere's the study on which this article is based: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765 As noted in the article, the EPA recently lowered the "safe limit" based on evidence that the previously acceptable levels were still high enough to reduce vaccine efficacy in children. And we already know PFAS impact fertility and hormones, can cause some cancers, etc.