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letmeinmannnnn t1_j5m981z wrote

Reply to comment by lightsails in Magnetic solution removes toxic "forever chemicals" from water in seconds by chrisdh79

Are they high in all fish in the world? Or mainly lakes in the US?

I buy farmed salmon from Scotland, I'm wondering if they're high in that

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leviathing t1_j5mlvi2 wrote

Stay away from fish farmed near military bases or airports. Otherwise you’re probably fine.

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lightsails t1_j5ndzto wrote

PFOS/PFOA has been used rigorously in so many products for 70ish years. It really is in everything. I work in environmental consulting and when we sample for it I need to make sure staff don't shower the day before as a lot of shampoos/body washes have PFOS/PFOA in it, you can't wear waterproof jackets, the list goes on. The fact is it's bioaccumulating in fish (along with many persistent pollutants) which makes sense as rivers/streams/oceans is where our waste ends up. Even though I live on the west coast of Canada, far from where the study was conducted, even if the fish here have a fraction of the amount of PFOS/PFOA that is still way past the lifetime limit according to the EPA.

But really if it's not this contaminant in fish it's something else I suppose. Depressing but is anything really clean anymore?

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letmeinmannnnn t1_j5nvrc5 wrote

Yeah I was thinking the same, we are being poisoned in one way or another and there's no avoiding pollutant, there's always something, we just have to hope our bodies are able to remove some of the burden in order to not become sick, very depressing times we live in.

And thanks for your comment, it looks like I'll be ditching my salmon I eat, sad times.

I wonder if I can find a lab that tests for this and send a sample of the salmon I buy to them, i guess any amount is too much tho so results will still mean I can't eat it

I checked and my water filter removes 99% of them so that's a start I guess

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FeloniousSausage t1_j5nx5qd wrote

I'm curious what water filter you have, as many don't remove these chemicals.

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letmeinmannnnn t1_j5o4z7j wrote

It's a Zero water filter, Zero is the brand, there's tests proving it to remove heavy metals, micro plastics and also PFOS / PFOA.

A Reverse osmosis system will remove them too if you want to go hardcore on your filtering system

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