While I agree with you in a general sense, the fact this occured in an educational setting with children would seem to indicate staff should have a hightened sense of compassion and the needs of the kids, and therefore wouldn’t sit around eating lunch and giggling while a child writhes and screams in pain on the floor for 2 hours.
then what should I do?
What did you do when you heard about PFAS/PFOS contamination?
The evidence agrees with you.
Pickard, the Harvard University postdoc, said there are reasons not to compare TFA to many other PFAS based on current information about health risks. But she disputed the notion that most TFA in the environment is naturally occurring.
While she was a master’s student at Memorial University in Canada, Pickard studied PFAS concentrations in ice cores in the Canadian Arctic. She first planned to measure for the “typical suite of PFAS” but decided to also look for very small forever chemicals like TFA, she said.
In an ensuing 2020 research paper, she and other researchers found that TFA concentrations increased in the ice cores “with the exact timing” of when new refrigeration gases were introduced after the Montreal Protocol, she said. Signed in 1987, the treaty spurred nations to phase out ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), leading to the rise of new substances for refrigeration and cooling.
“In these remote regions, I was basically able to say that TFA was coming from these CFC replacements,” Pickard said.
Yup, and FF Nightly, DDG and Ghostery too.
Obviously they failed at creating anything remotely ‘safe and secure’.
I mean a few simple rules should suffice, like “if a child falls and shatters their leg, staff should immediately call the parents and the ambulance”.
No, the source doesn’t say “it’s ok”. The source does state that the EU has put new, much lower limits on the chemical but they don’t go into effect until 2026.
The saying is old, not the film.
Thank you.
Just want to clarify your position here … you seem to be saying that a recognized forever chemical mostly used in pesticides in the EU, which is due to have its limits dropped in 2026, isn’t causing any problems currently because the EU hasn’t forced the limits to be dropped now?
who is right is not on the side of random lemmy poster in this case.
Looking at you, kid.
It’s like that old saying … Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.
Thank you for that explanation and extra source.
Nevertheless, each of the mineral waters tested- even the one with the highest measured contamination of 3,200 ng/l - complies with most of the current human health guideline values set by various authorities in the EU ».
So it is contaminated but within acceptable limits. Traces beside a few brands that have larger traces still within those limits.
I looked through many of the links in the article but can’t find this info you quoted. Please verify your source.
“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.” ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
I take you’ve never been affected by a tailing pond or pipeline failure then.
Being closed-minded and stupid is seen as a sign of greatness these days.
Probably the first one to shit his pants.
From the givesendgo page …
All proceeds will be sent directly to Luigi or, if he chooses to reject the funds, they will instead be donated to legal funds for other U.S political prisoners.
Why not every charge that can be leveled at them?
Because the link I shared was how a similar situation was dealt with in court.
What do you think should have been done in the current one?
You came damn close to it at least.