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Changes in these metabolic markers can be indicative of a number of different health outcomes in the future for the children, such as an increased susceptibility to obesity, insulin resistance, increased risk for fatty liver disease and potentially cancer.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
This study is doing an in-depth analysis of how PFAS exposure is not just impacting hormone levels in humans, but impacting different metabolic pathways as well.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Granular activated carbon filters are more common and less expensive but not quite as effective or consistent for PFAS.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The water filters that are most effective for PFAS are reverse osmosis filters, which are more expensive, about in the $ 200 range.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The important part is that you have to keep changing those filters, if you do n’t change that filter, and it becomes saturated, the levels of PFAS in the filtered water can actually be above the levels in the tap water.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The analysis focused on EPA wild-caught fish in rivers, streams and throughout the Great Lakes from 2013 to 2015 as that was the latest data available.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Consuming even a single (locally caught freshwater) fish per year can measurably and significantly change the levels of PFOS in your blood.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
You’d have to drink an incredible amount of water — we estimate a month of contaminated water — to get the same exposure as you would from a single serving of freshwater fish, consuming even a single (locally caught freshwater) fish per year can measurably and significantly change the levels of PFOS in your blood.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The water filters that are most effective for PFAS are reverse osmosis filters, which are more expensive.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The important part is that you have to keep changing those filters, if you don't change that filter, and it becomes saturated, the levels of PFAS in the filtered water can actually be above the levels in the tap water.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
EPA used a blood serum level of 0.17 ng/ml, this serum level was significantly below 2 ng/ml and then EPA applied an additional 10x safety factor to make sure variations in response between different populations were also protected.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Impurities may be present in the manufacturing environment due to the use of certain chemicals, equipment or containers. We need more testing, we need independent analysis as part of the overall supply chain. It's really critically important to find these problems before they get on the shelves.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Everyone's really exposed to a toxic soup of these PFAS chemicals.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's nearly impossible to avoid contaminated drinking water from these chemicals.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What is most alarming about these findings is that chemicals are absorbing into the body in significant amounts and the ingredients have not been fully tested for safety.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It seems likely that some of it is getting absorbed into the blood long after the sunscreen applications and in part that is why levels in blood stay high weeks after application, the skin is not a perfect barrier and so absorption of small amounts of chemicals from sunscreens( and indeed other skin care products such as cosmetics) is to be expected.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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