Robbie Staniforth
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first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Aug
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Yeah, absolutely.
Okay, yeah.
Okay.
So actually PFAS, we need to not think of it as a collective term as generally all bad.
Like some might be good, some might be bad in terms of uh harm to human health.
I in my mind's eye genuinely think of it like have you heard the term POPS, persistent organic pollutants.
Yeah, and I just think of them as a pollutant, bad in all scenarios and harmful to human health, rather than question mark maybe harmful to human health, some of which has been proved, some of which is yet to be proved.
Okay.
Okay, so then there's gonna become a categorisation of PFAS, the chemicals underneath PFAS, where they're either in the band or in the restricted stroke can be used category.
Yeah.
Okay.
Sure, and in the future you might be made to eat your words because as testing improves, what we make as a bold statement today about whether something's safe or not may well be proved in a year or two's time to not be true.
It does show the magnitude of difficulties that governments have controlling this, though, the testing environment to try and keep us safe.
We've only tested half of those plastic.
sticks and more will be invented at a similar rate to those that are getting tested, I imagine.
So it's one of those challenges where you just have to go with a best case, best endeavor scenario rather than going for absolute perfection, because we do actually need these chemicals.
Okay, so it's one of those things, just for the lay person, it's very difficult to r re-separate part of these molecules.
Okay.
And so the dose bit, I mean, it sounds like there's a lot of testing that needs to happen then in order to get to that very end third step.
Because it's very easy to just go around and look at the chemical composition of things and say, is PFAS in it?
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