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woensdag, augustus 16, 2023

‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Everywhere. What Are They Doing to Us? - The New York Times


https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/magazine/pfas-toxic-chemicals.html


"I've heard some people say, 'Well, if everybody is exposed to PFAS, how come we aren't all dead?'" Jamie DeWitt, a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, told me. In fact, she says, "People actually are dying." DeWitt cited a report in The Lancet that calculated that about nine million people each year die from chronic diseases caused by environmental pollutants of all kinds. "We need prevention," DeWitt says. "And that means acknowledging that environmental exposures lead to diseases."