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How is the chemical industry supposed to make a profit if they have to do 50 years studies on people and the environment when they manufacture a new compound? T
by eulgro 1y ago
How is the chemical industry supposed to make a profit if they have to do 50 years studies on people and the environment when they manufacture a new compound? Think about the shareholders.
- OutOfHere 1y agoIt was already clearly known at the time that PFAS was originally engineered that it's harmful and that it accumulates in the environment. This data was just willfully chosen to be ignored in the name of profits.
- collingreen 1y agoPlus all the slight variants made to avoid legislation and to spread the stats of the contamination problem around. The PFAS story is a pretty nasty one.
- eulgro 1y agoLuckily they have thousands of variations available for PFAS, so we'll only have to wait a few thousand years before they regulate them all, assuming it takes about 20 years for them to realize the new variation is exactly like the previous one.
- OutOfHere 1y agoAll organofluorines can be regulated together.