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by hammock 1414 days ago
The nonstick pans today still have PFAS. They removed PFOA but there are hundreds of similar chemicals that they can use instead, which reason would dictate are just as toxic but which so happen to have not been safety tested yet
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Interesting: this sounds like BPA-free plastics -- a lot of these have BPB and BPS which animal and cell-line studies have found just as concerning, but hey you can slap a "BPA-free" sticker on them!
Yes it's quite similar
what do you think the feasibility of making the laws a whitelist rather than a blacklist would be? they did it with drugs in the UK
It's a complex issue and I'm not here to advocate one solution or another. However, there is important information that the public ought to be aware of
I’m not asking you to advocate