I always thought that “forever chemicals” were so-called because they don’t react with anything.
Being completely inert.
Not affecting anything, and equally not being affected by anything.
They stay around forever, doing and affecting nothing.
Well perhaps the Royal Society of Chemistry should pull their finger out and tell us how we should better analyse in labs for PFAS compounds. At the moment accredited laboratories for the analysis are few and far between, and the tests are laborious so data gathering is slow meaning there is a big backlog of samples awaiting testing, with more more coming in all the time.
Secondly Chemists perhaps you could help us with the issue you have completely ignored in that statement…..yes it can be filtered out if cost is no factor, but then what do we we do with it? It’s a “forever” chemical, do we just dump it back in the watercourses? landfill? You tell us how to break down the carbon-fluorine bond so the resultant compounds are no longer a risk
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> ‘forever chemicals’ linked to cancer
Don’t get this. Have I missed something?
I always thought that “forever chemicals” were so-called because they don’t react with anything.
Being completely inert.
Not affecting anything, and equally not being affected by anything.
They stay around forever, doing and affecting nothing.
Well perhaps the Royal Society of Chemistry should pull their finger out and tell us how we should better analyse in labs for PFAS compounds. At the moment accredited laboratories for the analysis are few and far between, and the tests are laborious so data gathering is slow meaning there is a big backlog of samples awaiting testing, with more more coming in all the time.
Secondly Chemists perhaps you could help us with the issue you have completely ignored in that statement…..yes it can be filtered out if cost is no factor, but then what do we we do with it? It’s a “forever” chemical, do we just dump it back in the watercourses? landfill? You tell us how to break down the carbon-fluorine bond so the resultant compounds are no longer a risk