Pocket change.
This is not accountability for infecting the worlds population with these nasty chemicals.
This is not accountability for infecting the worlds population with these nasty chemicals.
Prozac, Lipitor, Flonase and about 30% of upcoming new pharmaceutical drugs are PFAS, so they aren't going away completely, because society has determined that they are valuable even if they can reach toxic levels if not disposed of properly (every chemical is toxic after a certain human concentration, including water).
Companies wouldn't be able to manufacture semiconductors without PFAS as well, or high temperature components for warfare.
Now that we are smarter, we know how to mitigate risk and reduce concentrating materials to keep below relevant ppb thresholds.
If America isn't educationally sophisticated enough to handle this manufacturing and risk, it will just be done in zero regulation geographies like China and the world will be worse off.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoxetine
But I’m unsure the line where perfluoralkylated is reached. I’d think if the compound had alkylated chains instead of a fluorine-linked head group.
You don't gain any longterm competitive advantage by poisoning half of your population, giving them wonderful cancers, infertility, massive amount of birth defects etc. You just destroy society and bankrupt medical insurance.
This isn't some economics and plying with abstract numbers, these are people out there and messing this up badly will have massive negative impacts for many generations.
Society never decided this one way or another. Rich and powerful corporations did.