Submitted by 3D-Printing t3_zf1lu4 in news
dillrepair t1_izbnoj7 wrote
Reply to comment by viceversa4 in DuPont loses challenge over cancer victim's $40 mln verdict in PFAS case by 3D-Printing
I’d love to know the concentration or dose needed to increase the risk…. Regardless of whether no amount is safe…. I mean how many hundreds of feet of Teflon thread seal tape have I used in my life alone. It would be nice to know an alternative to even that and what a dangerous amount actually is if it’s this bad… let’s just say I’m washing my hands with strong stuff after I use it. But it’s in so many other things… they were putting maybe still are into snowboard wax I used during my racing years… used that all the time…. Smoking hot wax everywhere
viceversa4 t1_izbunse wrote
The items themselves are probably not dangerous at all, assuming you don't burn the items. But the liquid used to dip them into sure is. And they have been dumping that used liquids in pits and waterways for 75 years. And for the last 10 years they have been incinerating it near kentucky, which unfortunately does not change the chemical composition, it just makes it an aerosol. Which then comes down as rain all around the world. Affecting all the water supplies, inundating the crops being grown, and the people and animals. Bioaccumulating in greater and greater concentrations since the human body has no way to get rid of it once it is absorbed. So buying pfas dipped products is not itself harmful, but it almost assuredly is putting money into the pocket of a polluting company that is destroying the world.
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