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by verall 1141 days ago
The dental floss you're talking about is PTFE and not PFAS.
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spiznnx 1141 days ago
PFAS is a class of chemicals that includes both the safe/stable PTFE and cancer-causing ones like PFOA, PFOS, and new ones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subst...

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coryrc 1141 days ago
Nope: https://www.ehn.org/pfas-floss-2658203711.html
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