> out of precaution I'd still rather not be the one to test the long-term effects of cooking with those on humans.
At this point that experiment already happened on previous generations, yah?
I want further research and restrictions on these things, because even the marginal effects on populations of billions means millions of people harmed, but we're so many decades in that "only beginning to understand" seems a bit overstated - if the effect size was hugely toxic wouldn't we have seen it by now (like cigarettes). Life expectancy plateauing or starting to tail off is not great, but there are a lot more obvious causes for a lot of that, and it's not critical yet.
I would rather be more proactive about new stuff in general than focused retrospectively on PFAS.
At this point that experiment already happened on previous generations, yah?
I want further research and restrictions on these things, because even the marginal effects on populations of billions means millions of people harmed, but we're so many decades in that "only beginning to understand" seems a bit overstated - if the effect size was hugely toxic wouldn't we have seen it by now (like cigarettes). Life expectancy plateauing or starting to tail off is not great, but there are a lot more obvious causes for a lot of that, and it's not critical yet.
I would rather be more proactive about new stuff in general than focused retrospectively on PFAS.