Microplastics in salt, seafood and tea bags: do the doses matter?
Particles turn up across the food supply, and plastic tea bags shed billions per cup. The counts are real; whether these amounts affect health is unestablished.
Bottled versus tap water and the nanoplastic count
A 2024 imaging method found roughly a quarter-million plastic particles per litre of bottled water, most of them nanoplastics — far more than older counts, and mostly unstudied.
Large US study finds no link between prenatal water fluoride and child behaviour
In 5,520 children across 34 states, prenatal exposure to regulated public-water fluoride showed no association with emotional or behavioural problems overall — with one caveat in a secondary model.
The PFAS problem has shifted from removing it to destroying it
Carbon filters and ion exchange concentrate PFAS rather than breaking it down, which turns treated water into a residual-waste problem. A new review puts numbers on what destruction would cost in energy.
PFAS: what they are, what the evidence supports, and what EPA has proposed
The 2024 US drinking water limits are the reference point for almost every PFAS conversation. Four of the six regulated substances are now the subject of a proposed rescission.
The C8 cohort has now been followed for deaths, and brain cancer rose
Thirty-two thousand mid-Ohio Valley residents with high PFOA exposure were tracked through 2021. Of 22 causes of death examined, one trend was significant and the authors themselves urge caution.
Lead in old homes comes from paint, dust and pipes — and no blood level is considered safe
Most childhood lead exposure traces to deteriorating paint in pre-1978 housing and the dust it sheds. The damage to a child's developing brain is steepest at the lowest measured levels.