Robbie Staniforth

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Talking Rubbish - The Recycling Podcast · 103. PFAS - what you need to know about forever chemicals · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

It's then much harder to do effectively a presumably medical studies about what accumulates in the body and what

does constitute the time, the kind of um exposure in terms of is rubbing against your skin enough, or do you have to ingest it in some way, breathe it in, etc.?

And suddenly the science gets much more complicated and the testing gets much more expensive.

Yeah.

I mean I it's hard to know what is worth monitoring in that context and what would constitute it tipping over into something dangerous when potentially the PFAS that they are using and that they are permitted to put in to the river

Do we know that they are safe or not?

Question mark.

Well, this is the reality of chemicals and manufacturing and lots of things get discharged into our rivers because that's the way we're kind of set up to say this is how we get rid of much of our waste.

And it isn't something we often talk about because we think of physical and and and uh solid waste rather than liquid waste.

So this is like s essentially saying the ones that are banned are banned.

You won't see those anywhere.

There are some that are legal for use, but actually we don't fully know what the problem might in the future be with them.

So therefore we'll allow certain parts per billion, a certain small and it d I mean it is a very small amount, isn't it, if you're talking about

about parts per million, parts per billion and stuff, then they're they're kind of saying that's how you limit that exposure by just not allowing it in the food packaging.

Really?

Yeah.

And so when you read through the study then, by the time you got to the end of it, you were sort of like, Oh, okay, I'm not so worried about shopping at Tesco in this example because they're not letting through

you know, gross amounts of these chemicals that are gonna bioaccumulate in my body.

I'm gonna be going home and saying, I'm sorry, I can't do the vacuuming anymore.

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