[HN Gopher] Plasticlist Report - Data on plastic chemicals in Ba...
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Plasticlist Report - Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods
Author : jeff18
Score : 102 points
Date : 2024-12-27 20:15 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.plasticlist.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.plasticlist.org)
| rtpg wrote:
| The boba tea result alone makes me want to never drink that
| again. Was a fun little treat while it lasted...
| jeffbee wrote:
| Why did you ever drink it in the first place? A boba is 500g of
| diabetes packaged in 100g of trash. It's the worst idea ever.
| cactusplant7374 wrote:
| Boba can be part of a healthy diet and lifestyle.
| 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
| So can smoking
| cactusplant7374 wrote:
| No it can't. Type 2 diabetes is mostly genetic. I can eat
| as much Boba as I want and not get diabetes.
| PittleyDunkin wrote:
| Some people are capable of consuming nutrition in moderation.
| rgbrgb wrote:
| my fam loves boba w zero sugar added... all the places we go
| to here in san diego let you adjust (e.g. omomo [0]).
| basically a fresh milky fruit or avocado smoothie with chewy
| tapioca pearls. it's a fun treat that seemed a lot healthier
| than an ice cream or something. these findings make me sad
| :-|
|
| [0]: https://www.omomoteashoppe.com
| jeffbee wrote:
| Ice cream strikes me as a lot healthier than boiled play-
| doh.
| tyre wrote:
| You seem to have a weirdly strong hatred for boba.
|
| It's okay if something isn't for you!
| gertlex wrote:
| It seems noteworthy, but not commented that I can see (in the
| article), that the different samples of "Boba Guys Black Tea
| Pearls" have 20x variation in measured amount.
|
| So what's up with that? (I have uninformed ideas...)
| mobileexpert wrote:
| The Boba Guys result is a real kick in the nuts. Using a shitty
| paperish straw for the environment but the core product being so
| high in these tests.
| dgfitz wrote:
| Think of the turtle.
| gertlex wrote:
| 20x variation in their measurements of "Black Tea Pearls" (and
| 8x or so in the tea juice). Would have liked to see more
| reflection on that.
|
| (I feel like I'm still seeing plastic straws for boba
| everywhere in San Jose; but I'm far from a frequent consumer)
| userbinator wrote:
| The "paper" straw, that's still coated in plastic and becomes
| unusably soggy long before the product is consumed.
| julianeon wrote:
| If you want one takeaway, it's: rethink your boba consumption.
| idunnoman1222 wrote:
| I've always been more worried about getting handmaid's tailed
| than dying from the wet bulb
| doug_durham wrote:
| The sugar content of boba tea is much more relevant than trace
| levels of BPA. You will have disastrous health effects from
| sugar, versus potential effects from BPA.
| sebmellen wrote:
| > _At least one of the 18 chemicals was found in every baby food,
| prenatal supplement, human breast milk, yogurt, and ice cream
| product that we tested, to name only a few categories._
|
| Wow
| jacobn wrote:
| Great work, very interesting list!
|
| Ideally the "% Limit" column would: 1. Be right-aligned 2. Have
| consistent formatting (i.e. same number of digits after the dot)
| 3. A little bar underneath each number showing relative scale
| (i.e. top entry is full width, last entry is 216.7 / 32571.4 =
| 0.00665307601, though maybe on a log scale for confusion? ;)
| userbinator wrote:
| Have any order-of-magnitude errors been found in the results?
| jeffbee wrote:
| I don't see much that I recognize as "food" in the report, and in
| the database I see that actual foods -- eggs, bananas, suchlike
| -- are no-detect across the board. Conclusion: eat food, instead
| of whatever these things are.
| hahahacorn wrote:
| RIP Boba Guys, that's unfortunate.
|
| I'd love to figure out what we can change about our governance
| and institutions to get human-readable reports like these (for
| $500k, no less!) from the institutions we dutifully disburse
| billions in taxes.
|
| But, I guess I'd also prefer to not go there. Because I imagine
| any process-heavy government form of this would invariably
| include boba guys not being allowed to sell their boba _until_ it
| is tested, which sounds so great in theory, but in practice would
| impose a disproportionate cost on retailers with less control
| over their supply chains than should be the case.
|
| Or maybe the real answer is discovering new technologies that
| allows you to test for plastic quantities in food for less than
| $500k/7xx samples.
| devindotcom wrote:
| Looking forward to more testing like this. I've been trying to
| consciously avoid anything combining "hot" with "plastic" though
| there's only so much you can do.
|
| Fish are aggregators of this stuff so that's not surprising. Spam
| and other processed meats and prepared foods also not too
| surprising (though what's with the Annie's organic mac and cheese
| being so full of it? Maybe it's the sauce?)... I think the tap
| water was the scariest one to me. Sure, you expect some but ...
| wildly unsafe levels?!
| SoftTalker wrote:
| Have "unsafe levels" been established, or are we just assuming
| that any is bad?
|
| Edit: I see they appear to be using the European Food Safety
| Authority (EFSA) intake limits for most of their tests.
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| Initial data says they're at least bad for sea life. Doubtful
| it's good to have such durable micro materials bouncing
| around our lungs and digestive tracts. Stopping pollution is
| also much easier than cleaning up after the fact.
|
| https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10151227/
| blindriver wrote:
| Well fuck.
|
| How can I test for effects from endocrine-disrupting chemicals on
| my children? Are there blood tests that check for this?
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