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The government refuses to regulate anything meaningful.
They will regulate a small business into bankruptcy, of course.
But they won’t ever regulate big corporations.
Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” are widely added to pesticides, and are increasingly used in the products in recent years, new research finds, a practice that creates a health threat by spreading the dangerous compounds directly into the US’s food and water supply.
The analysis of active and inert ingredients that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved for use in pesticides proves recent agency claims that the chemicals aren’t used in pesticides are false.
The researchers also obtained documents that suggest the EPA hid some findings that show PFAS in pesticides.
About 14% of all active ingredients in the country’s pesticides are PFAS, a figure that has doubled to more than 30% of all ingredients approved during the last 10 years.
The increased PFAS use in pesticides is “disturbing”, said Kyla Bennett, a former EPA official now with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility non-profit, and a study co-author.
“We should be eliminating PFAS from all products, but particularly pesticides because you’re spraying them on crops, and there’s not a more direct way to expose the population than that,” Bennett said. “We should not be going in this direction.”
Yeah, eating them is probably the worst way to be exposed.
But they’re also being absorbed by your skin and you’re breathing them in.
Why don’t people care more about this?