Robbie Staniforth
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first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Aug
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Twenty twenty two.
When you look globally.
So I'm just following the mainstream media, clearly.
I'm just jumping on the trend late on.
Yeah, and it's used in the same sort of breath as plastics is as shorthand for really bad stuff that we don't want getting into our system type language.
And although PFAS is very different from what plastics does, the headlines are very similar.
They're equivalent.
Shock, horror, plastics found in X, shock horror.
Forever chemicals, P FAS, find in X.
Yeah, and certainly plastics in many medical contexts, in terms of just our day-to-day lives away from packaging, are actually very, very useful.
And when they create things like different types of PFAS.
People are doing this in a laboratory or wherever, in their R D um studios and things, to try and advance things for humanity, not to try and create something that's going to cause a problem down the road.
And I think a lot of what these this term PFAS means is actually oversimplified into why did they ever create these things anyway?
When actually they created them to serve
have quite often a meaningful and useful purpose.
Okay, so so it's part like a barrier coating, part a lubricating barrier coating.
That's the kind of thing we should think about it as.
Yeah, and I suppose that's the bit that's the hard science that's really difficult to translate into media headlines, isn't it?
It's just too nuanced.
And when these studies come out, as you say, the headline around the Tesco study, it's literally in everything they tested, immediately I'm worried.
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