PFAS: The secret toxins in your body

What does a rain jacket or a pan have to do with our health and environment? A lot. They can contain "forever chemicals” or PFAS, which are seriously harmful and never degrade.

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Robert Billot’s next lawsuit on behalf of everyone in the U.S with PFAS in their blood:

Roland Weber's summary of PFAS in drinking water:

Companies and products that (partly) banned PFAS:

Author: Tim Schauenberg
Video editor: Cem Adam Springer
Supervising editor: Joanna Gottschalk

[DWPlanetA]

Editor's note: Unfortunately, we made a mistake. Robert Bilott spells himself correctly, as shown here, not as shown in the video. We apologize for the error.

[cloe]

We should start a whole magazine like Forbes, but we talk about the evilest companies in the world and rank them every year.

[pcb]

My first job after high school was spraying Duponts liquid telflon(Soil shield) on furniture. My daughter was born a few years later disabled, she is now 25 years old in a staffed home, with the same rare birth defects as the lab rats that caused a chemical in liquid telflon to be banned that year 1996.

[williamsawyer]

This just goes to show that we should only use traditional materials to cook with (stainless steel, cast iron, glass/ceramics) let alone the food we consume. All the processed foods and man-made materials that do not breakdown naturally are killing us.

[thecollective]

I am a former Marine Corps firefighter that is doing a presentation for my guys at our next reunion about these chemical compounds. Once you start going down the rabbit hole of information about this, one tends to get either more terrified, or more pissed off. The latest "safe" drinking water level is between .002 and .04 parts per trillion (means nothing to most, but you can get the idea of how toxic it is). There are military bases where the contamination is in the 1000's parts per trillion. The firefighting foam and protective gear firefighters use is loaded with it. A recent study showed that ONE service of wild caught freshwater fish (not the farm-raised fish you get at the market) is equal to 2400 times the "safe" drinking level. There is information out three for everyone to read about how to lessen the exposure to this.
Be sure you read it for you and your family.

[satltabur]

I replaced my Teflon coated pan long time ago with carbon steel pan, because it is more durable. That or cast iron pan, both are good. Back then I didn't know about the risks of PFAS, but now I'm more glad I stopped using it. There has been more and more discussion about the dangers of PFAS chemicals during this year and I hope many people become aware. And yep, say also goodbye to plastics in kitchen. No more plastic spatulas or containers touching my food. It is only glass, wood and steel now.

[noble]

Worked 5 years in a factory that I was exposed every day to PFAS nobody was saying anything about it’s danger. No body was willing to take the job in that section now I know why we have no baby for years.

[jooch_exe]

It's only the tip of the iceberg really. Millions of tons in PCB's and dioxins were also illegally dumped in the 'good old' days. Whenever they are cleaned up, they are just transferred to a new dump site.
Italy has become Europe's most favored dump site, there shouldn't be any reason why these companies are still allowed to exist. Yet they do.

[madz]

I live in a small village in Denmark. A city where Dupont was also located. (Now called IFF)
In the 70's they dumped chemicals in the city rivers and grounds and today we see a highly amount of people in the city getting the horrible sickness ALS which is much deadly, and this year the city will be checked to see if there is a link between this and Dupont. So scary i even live in that city...

[PriyankaKumari-wqtq]

I always wondered how even when I was thin I had good immunity as a child but from the years we switched to Teflon pans en all I started getting sick often and starting 2020 I was diagnosed with Lung cancer stage 4. Till today I was unable to find what caused it despite having no one in my family history of any type of Cancer.
Thank you so much DW. I will be sharing this video to as many of my connections as possible.Atleast they should not go through what I am going through now.

[orionthatman]

The thing that‘a scary is I’m sure there’s about 100 more things like PFOS that are toxic in our everyday life that we either don’t know about yet or we do know, and it’s just too difficult to phase them out.

[KNerolo]

I did my bachelor thesis on this stuff. I was able to shorten its chains but actually the shorter ones are even more toxic so fuck this stuff

[humanrays]

People get concerned that the vaccines have had inadequate human trials when there are things we use every day that don't have human trials at all.

[mightytaiger]

But hey, let’s keep mocking people that look for “clean” “toxic free” alternatives when shopping, because “eVeRyThiNg cAusEs cAnCeR”

[rickmoore]

Stories like this are important. We need to know and understand. It also freaks me out. Humans have done a great job with polluting an entire planet.

[jennifertarin]

I have never used nonstick pans but have used photo chemicals and waterproofing materials. I also grew up in a rural, farming area where every spring farmers would spray something on their fields (no idea what). I do know one potato farmer whose land is contaminated because he would dump whatever all over the place to get rid of it. When i lived in Brooklyn, i lived within a few miles of not one, not two but THREE superfund sites. It's amazing that im as healthy (so far as i know) as i am, relatively speaking

[aayusmanmallick]

Very very thanks DW. There is a very low chance that I would've otherwise known it.

[mini]

This needs to be pinned on the front page of YouTube. Needs billions of views.

[hotflashfoto]

So much stuff that we can't live without, only to find out that we can't live WITH it!

Wow... just wow.

[tinaaroha]

My sincere appreciation for your time, and understanding of a Toxic environment we live among,
Take care all.
Much love from New Zealand