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Green Practices Committee: Chemical Awareness and Sustainability: PFAS

PFAS


Paola Ros Aquino. That chocolate cake won't last forever but the chemicals in it might
Graphics here too: https://static.ewg.org/pdf/alex-530.pdf

Largely unregulated human-made forever chemicals used in the mfg process.
Detectable levels in human blood; FDA study 91 common food items; meat, fish, leafy greens, meat and fish, chocolate cake; migrate in to air, dust, contaminate food, soil, water and linger for years, accumulating over time. e.g from substance, to female, to fetus, contaminated water to produce,

Bioaccumulaton: gradual accumulation of substances such as pesticides or other chemicals in an organism, occurs when an organism absorbs a substance at a rate faster than which the substance is lost by catabolism and excretion.

 

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