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Top EU officials have toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in their blood (www.politico.eu)
submitted 9 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/publichealth@mander.xyz
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[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Uhm, everyone has it in their blood.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think the point is that rich people don't care unless it effects them, so point out that it does.

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do those chemicals also affect reptilians the same way?

[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

It is in the ecosystem so certainly in reptiles.

[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

That is a good point as a sad truth.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 15 points 9 months ago

I am glad of the publicity, maybe this will increase some anecdotal impact of telling the story, but they are way underselling it. Everyone has forever chemicals in their blood. Eskimos and Australian aborigines have forever chemicals in their blood. People tried to do a comparative study to analyze the health impacts, and they literally couldn't find any population anywhere on earth even after quite a bit of searching that didn't have significant amounts of forever chemicals in their blood.