Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body
New research aimed at identifying foods that contain higher levels of PFAS found people who eat more white rice, coffee, eggs and seafood typically showed more of the toxic chemicals in their plasma and breast milk.
The study checked samples from 3,000 pregnant mothers, and is among the first research to suggest coffee and white rice may be contaminated at higher rates than other foods. It also identified an association between red meat consumption and levels of PFOS, one of the most common and dangerous PFAS compounds.
“The results definitely point toward the need for environmental stewardship, and keeping PFAS out of the environment and food chain,” said Megan Romano, a Dartmouth researcher and lead author. “Now we’re in a situation where they’re everywhere and are going to stick around even if we do aggressive remediation.”
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Despite all this terrible news about plastics, we still won't go after the oil companies or plastic producers in the US to help put a stop to this.
It would be inconvenient for the economy if we started prioritizing people.
I agree with you, but PFAS/"Forever Chemicals" and micro/nano plastics are different things with their own host of concerns.
They go hand in hand with a lot of plastic packaging. Either way, it'd be nice to go after companies like DuPont, Bayer, 3M, and Honeywell as well as the oil companies that provide them the raw materials anyway.
Yes, of course, I mean just stop... Eating fucking rice first!
That is much better than those long and boring legal battles anyway. Who even eats rice or eggs or drinks coffee?
California has been going after DuPont for PFAS for a couple years now.
Assuming that research is accurate, and also given that those 3 things make up a huge portion of my diet, then I'm probably mostly made of PFAS these days.
I think we all are, unfortunately.
Born too late to be made of lead or asbestos, born just in time to be made of microplastics.
Asbestos and lead are still everywhere, unfortunately.
Thousands of tons of asbestos was released when the towers came down. :/
Same, except I eat brown and red rice instead of white. I also stopped buying pre-peeled shrimp because I read it has the highest level of microplastics among seafood.
Why would when a shrimp is peeled matter? They're presumably already dead when they're peeled.
My guess is the flesh can absorb plastics from packaging
Probably all of the above.
Probably during processing. If they are peeled by hand, the workers are likely wearing plastic gloves.
Lol, if not live forever then at least be preserved for eternity.
"Three things people in this world consume more than almost anyone else now poison you."
Hooray.
Next up. Do you drink water? Turns out its all poison now!
Soon:
I mean, based on the amount of bottled water people drink im pretty sure that could be a concern for most people. I don't drink water bottled in plastic because I think it's wasteful and contributes to the massive amount of plastic pollution already going on, but even if we consider that the recycling process is 100% efficient, those thin, flimsy bottles are still getting heated by and exposed to sunlight. It would be naive to think they aren't leaching plastics into the water. Just buy a cheap metal bottle and refill from the tap. That's where all the major brands get their water from anyway.
Of course, that tap water is probably filled with PFAS.
It's PFAS all the way down.
Oops! All PFAS!
Relevant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Re6pZri8Gw
Selection bias much?
If you don't consume any of those 3 you're probably ridiculously wealthy on some freaky diet.
All this says to me is "The food of the masses is contaminated" which yeah - we already knew the rich pay a premium to get less contaminated food.
I went to Kazakhstan and people there don't eat any of those things
The traditional foodstuffs are flour and meat, with a lot of things made from milk
Call me crazy but I don't think traditional Kazakh diets were part of the study of 3000 pregnant mothers in New Hampshire.
Of course not, I'm just saying your don't need to eat those foods to survive
Suggesting we all switch to a meat-heavy diet is the worst possible suggestion for us and for the planet.
No, it's not.
And yet it's worked for many societies for millennia...hmmm
Yes, back before there were eight billion people on this planet. Farming vastly more amounts of methane-spewing animals than we do now is an insanely bad idea.
I'm wondering if factory farms were eliminated, how much the environmental damage would be reduced.
You should start using your urine to wash your clothes it worked for society for millenia...hmmm
Nobody was saying that you must eat eggs to survive - the point is to show the flaws in the hypothesis of the study when related to the sample group.
If you are sampling 3000 mothers in New Hampshire and looking for those who eat less poor people food and more rich people food you should expect to see a correlation that can be equally described by socioeconomic status as it can by diet.
Coffee and rice? Just fucking kill me already, lol
Or:
I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie world Life in plastic, it's fantastic~
Yeah seriously! These three things are literally my daily staples.
Is that because of the food products themselves, or because of the non-stick coatings frequently used to package/cook/brew/prepare them?
Thanks!
Ffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck...
A lot of the world will die if they give up rice.
Are you suggesting we begin sharpening large blades?
No no, I'm just trying to make sure your kitchen is at its best. I do have some suggestions for how to build a knife block though...
This is our generation's lead
I'd guess it could also be K Cups and non-dairy creamer, but who knows
At this point everything on earth is contaminated with PFAS, PFOS, PFOA etc etc.
For too long gov'ts just let the industries do what they wanted without any real oversight.
I'd like to see the data about coffee also.
Data from the study.
So far I haven't seen beer and cigarettes on any of these lists.
Probably because those are not food.
Pfft. Tell that to my liver
I see someone's never had a delicious cigarette salad.
Huxley warned us that the things we love would kill us but I'd don't think he thought it would be like this particular case.
But this is my entire diet...
That's basically the Latino diet. I'm fucked.
oh, it absolutely is!
Basically my ideal breakfast…
It really is starting to feel like Reddit around here 😊🥹
Feel like the real underdog here is seafood.
Like, we know toxins concentrate in water creatures. That's why you'll see way more warnings about fish you harvest on any DNR page than you will deer.
Excuse my, but my only toxicity is in my attitude, thank you very much.
My ink is PFAS-free.
You're an air squid, your exposure is limited.
You've gotta be fucking kidding me. NOTHING IS SAFE ANYMORE GODDAMNIT
Nothing is safe, except the huge wealth advantage of billionaires.
Well, considering that toilet paper is full of PFAS to help it break down super easily, yeah, I'm not surprised.
Either make TP without PFAS, which will make it jam up pipes more, or use a bidet.
Or stop flushing fucking toilet paper down the toilet.
What else would you do with it?
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Got PDFs in my bones. Adobe pls.
People still do that, with all the hormones and heavy metals? Modern human is above wolfes and sharkes in the food chain.
Eww, who eats wolfes?
At least medieval people did eat dogs and cats ocasionally. And foxes & co.
Yes, but wolves?
Taste like dog.
The PFAS and plastics boundary lines in fossil records will be indeed very distinct.
Someone already mentioned this indirectly but I think this correlation is because all three items mentioned go on to be cooked in cookware coated in PTFE or mixed with spatulas and other utensils coated in PTFE.
PTFE is indispensable for high tech uses such as well almost all processes where high temperature near water boiling point is required. 100 to 200C for example. Now, because of its original use as a food process coating, PTFE is about to be banned in a stupid way.
I much rather have it banned from food use articles and allow it for use in niche technology. That would make the material more expensive and so less profitable to use in stupid uses where other materials are available.
I don't know how I would face the day without white rice...
Honestly I doubt it matters. They'll just keep adding more things to the list, this shit is everywhere.
I don't know what I'd do without coffee
I actually did manage to sub out coffee for tea, and can now go a day without caffeine for the first time since college. It's kind of an empowering feeling, that I would recommend.
its a good thing i don't drink coffee.
Now i can pretend i don't consume the other things listed here instead!
I just made a batch of white rice, once cooked I freeze it on baking paper. Not long ago I looked into baking paper, it's loaded with some kind of plastic non-stick chemicals.
Your regular reminder that Teflon (PTFE) microplastics are completely harmless and are by far the most common PFAS in the environment
Completely harmless? Doubt it.
Do you have a source handy for that?
The literature on PTFEs illustrates that it is, at best, uncertain whether there are health harms relating to contact and ingestion. Most of the studies struggle with confounds, controls, and sample sizes because almost literally everyone has been exposed to PTFEs. Toxicity researchers would not definitively agree that it is "completely harmless".
The other commenter is right, also, that PFOA and GenX (the chemical, not the generation) are more evidently harmful and both involved in, and released from, the creation of PTFE.
Just throwing this out here in case someone is like "wait, IS Teflon fine???"
Yes, except in order to make PTFE you have to use PFAS ... so it's a double-edged sword.