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by kevan 1515 days ago
The product quality is awesome. The company has some bad history with chemical dumping and caused at least one superfund site. And used the standard tobacco playbook after finding health concerns with PFAS chemicals in the 1970s to delay the rest of the world from finding out how bad it was. They only started phasing them out in 2000 and paid off at least one academic researcher for another decade to prevent or slow the release of studies showing negative affects.[1]

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/toxic-s...