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submitted 2 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/globalnews@lemmy.zip

Absorption through skin could be ‘significant source of exposure’ to toxic forever chemicals, study shows

Study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024003581

Archived version: https://archive.ph/9fCal

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[-] tyler@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

I thought we knew this already. I was trying to buy better pots and pans like a month ago and did about 30 hours of research and just everything I found made me mad and this was one of the things.

[-] Chuymatt@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

Cast iron or carbon steel.

[-] randombullet@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Or stainless. Most of my cookware is stainless

[-] Chuymatt@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Ah, yes! I just thought we were talking about nonstick cookware. Stainless is decidedly quite sticky at times. I like my mixture of carbon steel and stainless.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, pretty much what I found, but apparently carbon steel often has high levels of chromium and arsenic. That’s not to say it’s toxic at the levels it’s in there, but you still have to treat it a specific way to stop the chromium and arsenic from coming out 😣

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

PFOA is a relatively larger compound, and smaller “short-chain” PFAS that industry now more commonly produces and claims are safer were absorbed at higher levels – up to nearly 60% of one short chain compound dose was absorbed by the skin.

“This is important because we see a shift in industry towards chemicals with shorter chain lengths because these are believed to be less toxic – however the trade-off might be that we absorb more of them, so we need to know more about the risks involved,” said study co-author Stuart Harrad.

“Our research shows that this theory does not always hold true,” Ragnarsdóttir said.

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