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“We are now finding PFAS everywhere, but that it’s at levels above those allowed for human consumption in food — and wild boar meat and offal is consumed by hum
by EGreg 2y ago
“We are now finding PFAS everywhere, but that it’s at levels above those allowed for human consumption in food — and wild boar meat and offal is consumed by humans — is a worry,” Dr Müller explained.
Won’t it only get worse every year? Like carbon emissions?
- philipkglass 2y agoPFAS have a long environmental half life (decades), but despite the nickname "forever chemicals" they don't literally persist forever. People can expect to see a drastic reduction in PFAS body burden when/if environmental emissions of these chemicals are slashed. For example, the US phased out production of the PFAS perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) with a series of legal actions starting in 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid#Legal_actions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid#Legal_a... As a result, blood levels of PFOA in the US population declined by 70% since the turn of the millennium: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/health-effects/us-population.html https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/health-effects/us-population.... If other PFAS are no longer emitted to the environment, levels in the human population can be expected to decline at a similar pace.