The Forever Chemical Scandal | Bloomberg Investigates
PFAS chemicals are used in thousands of products aimed at making life easier. But the chemicals are now almost everywhere, including in human blood, and are being linked to severe health problems.
Correction Note: At 37:45, this video incorrectly identifies the year Minnesota's ban on PFAS in food packaging will begin. The ban takes effect in 2024.
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Bill Gates is grinning ear to ear after watching this video. He is the largest owner of US farm land no doubt watering it with this stuff.
What language is this documentary? It shows Portuguese to me 😳
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Bloomberg please investigate KRELL dumping in the 90s in NH
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1. Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA): - Non-stick cookware (e.g., pans, frying pans) - Stain-resistant fabrics (e.g., carpets, upholstery) - Food packaging (e.g., microwave popcorn bags, pizza boxes) - Firefighting foam - Waterproof clothing (e.g., rain jackets) 2. Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS): - Stain-resistant coatings on textiles (e.g., carpets, furniture) - Carpet cleaners - Firefighting foam - Metal plating and surface treatment - Photographic industries (e.g., in film-processing chemicals) 3. Perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA): - Cleaning products (e.g., stain removers) - Paints and coatings - Electroplating - Lubricants and metal-working fluids - Electronics manufacturing 4. Perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA): - Water- and oil-resistant paper coatings - Coatings for food packaging - Cleaning products - Lubricants and metal-working fluids - Insecticides 5. Perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS): - Stain-resistant coatings on clothing - Upholstery and carpets - Food packaging - Leather products - Firefighting foam 6. Perfluorodecanoic acid (PFDA): - Water- and oil-resistant coatings for paper and cardboard - Coatings for food contact materials - Firefighting foam - Automotive lubricants - Textile and leather treatments 7. Perfluorododecanoic acid (PFDoA): - Stain-resistant treatments for carpets and upholstery - Coatings for cookware and bakeware - Lubricants for heavy machinery - Paints and coatings - Adhesives and sealants 8. Perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA): - Stain-resistant coatings on textiles (e.g., carpets, upholstery) - Firefighting foam - Photographic industries - Heat transfer fluids - Electrical insulation 9. Perfluoromethanesulfonic acid (PFMS): - Electroplating - Metal cleaning agents - Capacitors and electronic components - Photographic industries - Aviation hydraulic fluids 10. Perfluorobutanesulfonic acid (PFBS): - Firefighting foam - Coatings for carpets and textiles - Chrome plating - Metal finishing - Electronics manufacturing 11. Perfluoropentanoic acid (PFPeA): - Stain-resistant coatings on textiles - Paper and cardboard coatings - Mold release agents - Cosmetics and personal care products - Photographic industries 12. Perfluoroheptanoic acid (PFHpA): - Lubricants and hydraulic fluids - Stain-resistant coatings on textiles and carpets - Firefighting foam - Mold release agents - Pesticide formulations
Thank you
Yes appreciate it.
This should be at the top, it's impossible to avoid them by now.
Now I will never be clean 🌎 way to to go people
It's almost as though atmospheric CO2 isn't the biggest environmental threat.
Probably the most disturbing part of this whole story is how the companies defend themselves, instead of working with the government and scientists to resolve the issue and find better ways. This is madness. OMG 😢
I've little doubt these companies are owned by the same elites as are trying to introduce the NWO.
The people who invented circumcision still run the world.
This is Cap.ta.ism.s...
Discover, find, invent, whatever, the chemical and immediately find its usefulness. The use of the substance towards warfare and/or profits, determines the course of the company. I have no doubt that there is less than 1% of the operating expenses devoted to the research done on consequences to the environment of the manufacturing, let alone its consequences upon the human social environment, and human health, along with our living world we live in. Can't hold them responsible. Being responsible would send a company into bankruptcy.
Because as every gangsta if you are not innocent you will defend even if everybody know you did it.
We Humans get fu..ed from every angle by governments and big corporate companies. The worst part is, we also pay them for doing so.
As a 56 yr old man, I'm shocked that I'm just learning about PFAS here this morning, from this video playing on my phone. And it's only by chance that I even clicked on the video . My guess is many will just scroll on by. Tragically. Not knowing there are PFAS all around them. The world is reaching end times .
it's too late to complain. these chemicals are already in your body.
There has been many articles and videos on this for some time
America has the most toxic everything compliments of the American tax dollars !
I’ve known about these chemicals for at least 10 years bc of the banning of Teflon years ago. Bc of that ban I started researching all chemicals being used in our cooking utensils. I threw away any non stick pans years ago. AL CLAD stainless steel is truly the safest.
Yes this info has been here for years, if you’re looking for knowledge. Most ppl don’t do research at all ever. We are lied to about everything and have been forever but intensified in 1868.
Can we agree that we don't really need grease-resistant coated pizza boxes?
Better alternative - just make less oily pizzas!
@@reidos6420no >:( ! give me the most oily soggy pizza ever i'll just eat the pizza box with it.
@@LeOssiTrollterrible Ha! Cardboard ain't so bad when it's soggy, I guess.
There are people who compost pizza boxes !!
@@1964_AMUthats concerning, and they didn't even know. So it went back into the food chain if that compost was for food.
Their documents reveal that they knew that PFAS caused harm since the 60s and INTENTIONALLY covered it up. The companies should of been IMMEDIATELY shut down when the public found out to send a very stark message to these corporations.
Intentionally because they designed them to be gender bender chemistry for an exaggerated LGB whatever community.
Should have, not should of
@au1317 Cheers
Fined out of business!
No it should have been taken from them all profits to remedy their harms and management put in place to remedy pollution. There will always be uses for Teflon many industrial parts need coated with it doesn't mean they have to be a risk to humans. You should look up artificial blood used experimentally without consent in the United States which is also a fluorocarbon here's a quote from an article "Imagine being in a car crash, lying unconscious and bleeding in an ambulance. With no blood on board, paramedics give you an experimental substitute, but even at the hospital, you get fake blood for several hours before doctors try the real thing."
I did a ten minute presentation on this in a class in college. When I was finished I could feel the very uncomfortable air especially with the teacher. I think they thought I was tin foil hat-ting it. And it was even a mellow version of it. And there's tons of evidence and still got crickets. "Forever Chemical" was coined by Du Pont but in a positive way
College is where people need to learn about what gender they are.
College is where activists go for day care. *They literally could not survive without the system.*
@@Moe_Posting_ChadOoohhh, such unique thoughts. You are a true member of the intelligencia. Lol.
People are always going on about climate change but this is the type of thing that concerns me.
And now DuPont is pushing an even worse DNA altering CRSPR as the cure for all the genetic disease they caused.
I work in a car repair industry for 6 years now. I have developed a chronical cough and a runny nose all year around and im not even 30yrs old. I dont smoke, i work out and try to eat healthy. I fear my health problems are caused by the chemicals and materials i get in contact because of my work. Metal dust, paint dust, glue dust, lubricants, aerosols and different cleaning chemicals. Many of these are 3M and other big companies products. Also my cough and nose gets better when im on vacation and away from my job for some time. I think i should get a more healthier job....
Body work?
Most likely Fibral, bondo, chemical all E.
Bodywork as dent repair, welding, grinding and all that@@confidentlocal8600
You should be using a respirator all the time
It could also be the j4b.
I am a landowner in AZ and I just ordered a PFAS testing kit to see if the groundwater here in Cochise County has high PFAS levels. The reason I suspect this is because we recharge our aquifers with reclaimed wastewater, but removing PFAS from wastewater is not mandatory in AZ. My concern is that I find a high concentration of PFAS in the groundwater. If that is the case, I am taking this to the next level. I have never heard of PFAS until this video, thank you for spreading awareness. We must battle Goliath!
Wow removing PFAS isn't mandatory ? That tells you everything you need to know.
It's been publicly known for 24 years. Only gained steam when the original Dupont lawsuit hit.
@@Optim40 I was shocked to find that out. I ordered my PFAS test today and if it comes back that our groundwater has it, I am taking this to the top!
@@RusticSkills Absolutely
pshhhh i bet
4:37 - silicone oil works fine for waterproofing, it just doesn't last for decades. We already had a solution for food packaging, it's called wax.
I miss wax paper.. sometimes I get meat at butcher they still use ..
When I was growing up, frozen vegetables were always packaged in wax paper wrapped white cardboard cartons. Alternatively, you could buy canned vegetables.
What SORT of WAX? 1. Bee's WAX. 2. Artificial Chemical
Cans have a plastic layer inside
@@DrifterZigzag that contains BPA and probably PFAS
The ecologists has been warning us about this since the 60's. The problem is that nobody wants to fix the problem.
Heck, the state of vrrmintvyook mondsnto to court to try to gry GMO products labelled that they're GMO. The state of Vermont LOST. The judge had to be bought off.
the money is too powerfull..
ATWA all ways around.
What kills me is that all these companies arent held liable and responsible, because they pay off crooked judges, government officials, etc. Thats a big part of my sadness on this planet, is to know that these type of things have been going on since the beginning of time, and yet they are protected, and the prople that protect them are as guilty as they are. For me i will never have any peace knowing these type of things will be allowed to continue. Its wrong on so many levels!
Right on. It’s ruining the whole life experience.
@@Lemoncare yeah im like done bro. Theres only like one thing keeping me going.
@@KB_Joys hey, what going on ?
@@Lemoncare nothing really, just a depressive state of being when i think about all that stuff longer than i should, lol
@@KB_Joys I sure get that! Try to spend the day picking out things you do like.
If a company knowingly withholds hazards of its products, then they should be held criminally liable for all injuries and deaths that occurred because of their products. And those out of court settlements in which they do not have to claim liability should be classified as bribes.
a revolving door of politicians, insiders and lobbyists need their kickbacks lol
Agreed!!!👍
A large company in Australia has been cancelled and sued for asbestos.
You elect them to rule you. It’s literally done by you
@@arod1766no it’s not to be ruled it’s to be REPRESENTED, big difference
I have known persons whose lives were changed by 3M's attitude towards chemical dangers. One a man whose father was a production worker a a scotch guard factory who died from a rare and aggressive cancer, another whose career in the Minnesota Environmental Protection Agency was ended because he kept finding 3M dump sites. He literally would have to stop talking to control his anger when he attempted to explain the blatant disregard for environmental safety or implications of the willful non consideration of long term affects he dealt with. He was regarded as an intemperate grudge bearer who held a distorted view. Well, turns out his acerbic and caustic assessment was accurate. We all have been deliberately poisoned.
Well, Lynn, your friend's father was very naive. Everybody knows that the rich and powerful can do whatever they want and even in the rare case that they are caught there will be no consequences. So, the smart move is to join them and cash in, which is what most people do, or at least ignore the wrong-doing so you can keep your meagre proletariat income.
@@macgp44emperors dog
@@macgp44that's the most ridiculous horsesht I've read all day😂. You're not cashing in on 3m (or anyone else) by ignoring their disregard for rules.
@@dont.ripfuller6587 that's just one of the idiotic order followers that would close the door on train cars to send you to the camps
But 3M makes Post-Its... so cutey!
I’ve been talking about this and upset about it for 14 years now. I’m so glad that slowly people are waking up to this sad reality. We cannot let these corps win.
ZOG enemy
The corps win because the government is in bed with them; without the government playing interference these corps would be torn down by the people.
The corporations have already won.... the environmental protection agency protects them not us .... the epa doesn't stop them but just tries to determine how much poison we can take before we die ... and call it a safe level 😢
It’s for forever.
They already have won
My mom told me an old boat company did this, dumped chemical waste in a river located in Nashville Georgia. I said, “Did they arrest the owners who did it?” She said, “No, and no one ever will because the damage has already been done!” I personally know at least 8 people who have cancer now, who live close to that river. Disgusting!
Disgusting. The CEO's and all people who had a part in it should be put in prison.
prison is too kind
@@user-hm9is5ke9iespecially prison for rich people. Even if they're tried in court like us they arent punished like us.
@@DavidPienaar-jb6cu woke up at 7 this morning actually
Like the plandemic
we think we are sovereign and this is somehow greedy peasants BUT forget that we are not sovereign as the Kings/Queens global Agenda to weaken us (and divide) is pushed forward - Agenda 30
I applaud Bloomberg for producing this video. I would have expected Bloomberg to protect the companies who are really the villains in this story. Those companies defended the indefensible ONLY because telling the truth would have hurt their bottom line. I'm disgusted by them all. I grew up in Minnesota and believed 3M was a company we could feel proud about. I don't feel that way any longer.
The fact that you think that, yet strangely Bloomberg is against them, should tell you something
They knew how dangerous these chemicals were in the 60s..where was Bloomberg then? They're only reporting on it now due to legal action..
Bloomberg is just openly letting us know that this is going on. Didn’t you hear the woman at the end saying she believes people won’t be willing to give up things that are made with PFAS like water proof leather shoes or stain proof couches? I thought that was telling.
Right, was thinking same, their name alone doesn't exactly inspire truth/the people's best interest
Love you
In February 2024, the FDA announced that substances containing PFAS were no longer being sold in the US market for use as grease-proofing agents on paper food packaging. This has removed the main source of exposure to PFAS from authorized food contact uses, according to the FDA. -American Cancer Society Why has it taken so long when this has been known for many years?
I dont belive it. They say it is, but it's not happening. I don't trust ANYTHING the government says.
the fact that you dont seem to know the answer, says it all. people are dumb.
We need to stop the production of PFA's immediately.
::::::::::::::::: Factories are dirty. If you're against it, live life, in nature!!
Already happening but the companies are allowed to create new variations which will subsequently be revealed to be toxic. America need to rein in it's unscrupulous environment destroying corporations.
It’s over bro
Nature? Remember that rainwater also has chemicals in it most of the time. We're toast.
We cannot simply "stop it". Every chemical we make comes into exposure in the lab as a result of PTFE stir bars and protective coatings on industrial batch processing equipment. If you ended PFAs then you have literally no medicine, fertilizer, electronics... etc etc etc. All gone. Even food. Basically we all go back to living like Amish folk and the global population is reduced by ~90%... so we can't do that! But we can significantly reduce our use of PFAs in applications where they are entirely superfluous or totally unnecessary and greatly reduce our exposure by phasing it out of most (not all) applications. That we can do and we really should have done it decades ago. We are lead by the least of us.
They knew. They did it anyway. And when will they ever be held accountable?
When we hold them accountable. The laws of countries won't help us, so we might have to use the laws of physics.
Remember,it's not corporations, it's the PEOPLE running them! Hold PEOPLE responsible.
The whole idea of incorporation in order to protect the owners from responsibility is repulsive....
People have been saying that for years, but nobody listened.
I’m a child of a Vietnam vet born after his military service and grew up with all these chemicals. There is a 3M plant not too far away from me also. I think it’s amazing I’ve lived to almost 50 and not had some health issue yet.
They aren't doing it "WITHOUT thinking of the consequences..." It's not ""careless". It. Is. Deliberate.
Well, most of them think there are too many of us running around as is. Nothing surprises me.
I think you're right..
They know the consequences. Money is more important than life itsef
Absolutely. All deliberate. Just like the jab.
These are pharmaceutical companies that are systematically poisoning, people in order to keep their cash crop funding them! My aunt died not from the cancer that she developed, but from complications to chemo that they were giving her. First they create the problem, and then they create the solution, which is not a solution. It’s just another problem more cash, flowing to them.
As a society we must stop allowing the benefits (profits) of corporate behaviour to be privatized while the risks and harms are assumed by the public.
We don't have power.
So let's allow the corrupt govt watchdog agencies control it... yeah the ones that accept money from these poison companies for their yearly budgets. The companied dont care if they are sued- they can well afford ocassional pay outs. So broken.
@@thewhitefalcon8539 We have the power of the purse, just like the most powerful branch of the U.S.A. federal government -- the Congress. It's the branch of our federal government with the most direct connections with our people, the people's branch.
Agree: Profits are Privatized, Losses are Socialized.
Sounds like anti-capitalist talk. Do I need to summon a policeman? 😜
Literally right after the journalist was talking about the plume of PFAS in cottage grove, I got an ad for 3M........
Here in North Central Kansas, my wife has Multiple Sclerosis and my father-in-law died with Parkinson's, Farmers using chemicals is the cause IMO, father-in law was a farmer! Thanks for posting this video, great presentation! "KEEP ON KEEPIN ON"
I was an environmental health and safety manager for chrome plating and machine shop. We remanufactured part for the oil and gas industry. We used PFOS in our chrome tanks to prevent chrome misting during the plating process. We were not suppose to use it to prevent chrome misting but it was approved by the State because it lowered the maintenance on our air scrubber system. During plating process hydrogen bubbles surface to the top and pops creating chrome misting that clogs up the air scrubber faster. We added the forever chemical in our chrome tank to create more surface tension to prevent misting. The chemical was banned 2017 and we found another chemical but with slightly different chemical makeup. The employees are not only exposed to hexavalent chromium but the forever chemicals. Honestly, I don't think a person can put any measure of safety to prevent exposure to chromium or the forever chemicals. The scrubbers will not catch all the misting if the PFOS chemical is low in the tank. No matter what you do, the employees are exposed to one or the other. I resigned.
Glad you resigned. The stories in the comments are scary.
What do you think about the plandemic
no PPE?
@@moonashaPPE will not save you. You can’t filter it all out. This is explained in the video. PPE lowers risk, but it doesn’t eliminate the risks. It all has to do with particle size and means of exposure (through skin, inhaled, ingested… etc).
Well done to you for resigning. Hope you found a job more deserving of you. It's utter madness.
Years ago on 60 Minutes there was a special where a video secretly recorded corporate people at a chemical plant who talked about how their chemicals were making their male workers sterile. Instead of improving worker safety they agreed the men could simply adopt and did nothing.
Now you are getting warmer
Yep, population reduction. Chemical war over a long duration.
'simply.' problem solved.
Do you remember the title of that video?
An opportuniyt to make fertility drugs
This is sick.
I recall telling my VA support group why teflon was invented to handle Uranium. Uranium couldn't be left behind on the tools used to handle it, but teflon could be left behind on the uranium. So, it was known teflon leached on food from pans.
US is ridiculously slow in reacting to and banning toxic chemicals - this also applies in the field of drugs.
Let's not get carried away. My drug use is on purpose. My blood being full of PFAS is not.
Government is captured by billionaires and the industry. Nothing will change as long as this is the case. Maybe vote for Jr. RFK and things will start to change.
@@dfgdfg_ Drugs are chemicals, too, with some certainly being toxic. I learnt that some drugs caused bad reactions in me and I stopped them cold turkey. I trust my feelings better than my doctors. I can feel it.. something's not right... This was probably my most valuable sense: I only eat two mouthfuls of💩 before I gripe. 😊
One wonders if the EPA is as captured by the chemical industry as CDC is by the pharmaceutical industry.
@@dfgdfg_But do your drugs have pfas coatings? And how about that new knee? Or waterproof bandaid?
The crazy thing to me is that I am an investor in chemical companies and understand their business model very well. There is absolutely NO reason to continue manufacturing PFAS in any way, the chemical industry is quite literally profitable enough, and they wouldn't even hurt their margins or dividends or stock value to stop manufacturing PFAS and to properly contain them and destroy them. Seriously, what the heck is wrong with them? Such public damage over such a pointless thing -- we don't need scotchguard, teflon, or anything else like it.
True
Lobbyists
Love of Money
Your part of the problem
LOL. This blood is on your hands as an investor. Your comment here doesn't let you off the hook.
Thank you for sharing this story. My husband was a firefighter for 35 years, and the turnout gear that was supposed to protect him and other firefighters is full of PFAS. He is dealing with some health issues that may have been caused by these PFAS.
FOUR MONTHS AGO AND NO ONE IN THE COUNTRY IS TALKING ABOUT THIS.
40 years ago when these chemicals were suspected to cause cancer nobody did nothing and 40 years from now they will do nothing.
as a person who has worked in this industry people would be horrified what chemicals are in your food medicine and just general every day items, that are listed as hazardous to human health.
Is there any particular product that people consume a lot and should rather stay away from? I know avoiding these chemicals completely isn't possible, but we might be able to mitigate the risks...
@@chris_ssj2 nitrates, teflon, phosphates in large amounts, High fructose corn syrup i guess stuff that is not normally found naturally within the food chain unfortunately its a trickle down effect.
@@mythics791 I think that there is more high fructose corn syrup in food in the USA than anywhere. Many things that are not allowed in food in Canada and UK are ubiquitous in the US food supply. The UK will not allow even bread from the US to be shipped there.
@@mythics791Nitrates are fine and actually play important physiological roles. People used to think they were involved in tumour growth, but there's no clear evidence for that. Anything in large enough amounts is going to have a negative effect anyways.
@chris_ssj2 stay away from all food products that contain Bioengineerred ingredients. They're also spraying it every day from the sky along with other poisons. All fresh water ponds are containminated with Cyanobacteria and Microcystis which is coming from the sky.
2 years years ago i had 6 chickens for eggs. I used to occasionally feed them scrambled eggs as a treat. I would cook them in a Teflon pan before serving them. Over time, some eggs started to have a rough surface, some were misshapen, and one hen had very soft shelled eggs that would break as it was being laid. The following year, i added 6 more hens. I no longer cook their eggs in a Teflon pan (for them and for my family), but rather in a cast iron skillet. The 2nd batch of 6 hens have perfect eggs, whereas the first set of 6 hens do not. 1 died from a broken egg inside of her, 1 still lays the very soft or missing shell eggs (and she only lays about 2 per week), one lays eggs with a very rough surface, 2 do not lay eggs at all, and one still lays one perfect egg every day. The hen (from the 1st batch of 6) that lays every day was the most timid and would often not get any of the scrambled eggs when i fed them as a treat (the other 5 gobbled them up as soon as I threw them to the ground). I say all this to say that the ONLY difference is me throwing away the Teflon pan and replacing it with a cast iron skillet for cooking. Since chickens have a shorter life span than humans, and thus a shorter reproductive period, this results in any disruption to their reproductive system showing up sooner than it would in humans. I believe Teflon pans to be an endocrine disruptor and a contributer to infertility. 😢😢 (But I'm not saying there aren't many other toxins that can contribute to infertility) This was just my experience and accidental experiment
If you have birds, everything that contains Teflon should be removed from your home. It causes Teflon toxicity (PTFE) in birds. Other non-stick cookware should also be removed due to the fumes which are also toxic to birds.
@@tammylaronde8593 100% correct
Intresting experience.
Try giving your chickens some oyster shell grit
I'd like to know what is in the chem trails in our skys are fill with and why do we have to control our weather with these chemical . Our air Is being polluted by these chemicals we have to breath in also
Question: When they remove the PFOAs etc from the water through that foam-filtration system, how do they then dispose of the concentrated chemical? Where does it go?
Thank you! Thank you to all of you who participated both present and dearly departed. My deepest condolences to the families affected. My heart goes out to y’all. How horrific. 😞
As one grows older it becomes so depressing hearing of these types of stories and other tragedies that could’ve easily been avoided but it’s cheaper to do things like this so here we are. You begin to see how horrible your fellow man is all for a dollar. It won’t do anything but get worse. Disgusting, just disgusting.
Definitely.
Things are not that black and white. Most things your fellow man does for a dollar, are completely voluntary and do not harm anybody. But more importantly, the government cannot do anything before taking it from someone else first. Government cannot do anything about anything without large scale extortion and confiscation of people’s fruits of labor i.e. slavery, which is also “disgusting”, in my moral book at least.
Money is the devil's bargaining tool. The devil attempts to destroy the creator of life. And the devil is a master of deceit.
@@billyboy4797 100%
STOP LOBBYISTS
Absolutely disgusting. Human greed at its finest
How very rotten are these chemicals.cancer is big business.
It's so sad that protecting us does not matter .
I worked for almost 30 years in an industry with an extreme exposure to these chemicals. Where do you go to get tested for them?
I got really sick doing electrical work. Imagine my surprise learning about PCB ballasts after I spent a summer helping a city remove them. One passerby said the city should of given us hazmat suits but they were too cheap! I just thought the guy was messing with me. After I got very sick I sure suspected the exposure I had. If I told you they would tell us if we cut our hands on electrical boxes to just wrap our fingers in 3m phase tape many of us did. I can't forget taking math exams with swollen hands. From what I can hardly remember any more, I believe some of those guys believed we needed the exposure to build immunities. Yes I somewhat remember us all being awful sick in class one day and one instructor said 'What we gave you is really a gift if you can endure it'.. What a career choice... I had such bizarre and unbelievable experiences in electrical construction and I didn't last five years. FB won't even let me share this video. I can't believe it's what my life became.
It's extremely unlikely you were exposed to PCBs. They haven't been used since 1979 or before, and they were inside the capacitors buried inside the ballasts.
@@gregorymalchuk272 I don't know why someone who wasn't there always 'assumes' it was unlikely. If they were not marked 'no pcb's' they had pcb's in them. One building was condemned since the 70's. I even helped renovate an old factory that later became a Hewlet Packard facility that had an old oil transformer that cracked open and the whole crew got sick that week. That transformer as well as the PCB ballasts were marked removed but NEVER WERE! It sounded to me like someone signed off on a job and got paid for that job and never did it. I have experience handling that stuff and working around it before they told us about it in OSHA. I get all the deniers. Met a lot of those bring this up but I met plenty of seasoned electricians that told me don't let anyone who wasn't there tell you otherwise. Tell your story and welcome to what electricians have to deal with. I really hope they removed all by now. I seen plumes of yellow orange dust spew out of the pcb blast shield in the old fixtures. Don't breathe it in they warned us. Tell that to the youth of today, and they probably wouldn't believe you.
What city?
@@gregorymalchuk272some kind of pfas by the symptoms he described
@@gregorymalchuk272 Taking out or repairing fixtures that contain them.
this documentary needs to reach a wider audience
I thought this was about the clot shot.
Unless it reaches the right audience, those who can and would want change, it's nothing.
I cannot believe the views are so low on this.
Humans are evolving with all these chemical mutations. I always say, we evolved to where we cannot survive without chemicals in our surroundings. For example, if a caveman were to walk into a Hospital, he'd instantly get sick, from what is cleanliness & sanitary & safe for us, like bleach & ammonia, artificial fragrance, the tap water used to clean, etc..... Whereas, if we went back to their time, we'd get sick & prob die from the germs & dirt, from their unsanitary environment.
Yep 100% Someone should hack the worlds tv feed and put this everywhere!!
As an environmental chemist, I can affirm you that it's a myth that we can claim water as drinkable water. Water is only drinkable in relation to drinking water standards: the identity and concentration of the substances that we are "looking for", physico-chemical parameters. We usually say “We only find what we look for”. the series popularized a truncated vision of this science which, from a sample, could reveal its exact composition and even the age of the murderer! Identifying and measuring the concentrations of chemical substances of varied nature and in small quantities is difficult and very expensive. We should have thought about it in advance and only used its substances for uses where they are essential and bring very high cost benefits/risks. Using persistent substances for frying pans, pizza boxes, popcorn bags, pesticide formulations, waterproofing clothing, etc. is a total aberration. We are certainly not at the end of other surprises of this kind and remove them from water to make it drinkable also has a very high costs !
How many times have we put weird inert chemicals into our environments that turned out to be terrible. DDT. Thalidomide, nukes, plastics..and on it goes. Whenever there is money to be made, we seem to never ask the question, just because we CAN do something, does that mean we should ?
The answer is : YES !
We've known for years that Teflon is bad for us, but most of my family continues to use pots and pans with it. Humans are strange like that..... truth and change takes so much energy and diligence and self discipline.... even when given the information..... most will go about their life as usual.
I agree entirely. On another subject but same principle. I have spoken to Christians who believe in the Bible but just ignore what Christ said as the safety warnings of what faith consists of in Rev 14:12 & Mat 5:17-20. & many other places describing what the New Covenant offer response entails. People don't want truth they want convenience no matter historical fact. The social construct of "belonging" to the abuser strengthens the need to be deaf & blind to the facts. Blessings
People seem to think that if it's commercially available it must be safe. I had a similar issue at a workplace where one person played aggressive rap music at top volume- if a person had been standing there screaming the words for 5 hours they would have been arrested very quickly, but because it is commercially available it's okay.... It's bizarre.
That is so crazy to me. The willful ignorance to your own well being is so strange and wrong
@@didactica9326 It is, and it does feel like a full time job trying not to come in contact with pollutants and chemicals, at the end of the day our best is that we tried to on a personal level, but improbable to avoid entirely.
I remember when Teflon pans came out I thought it was just plain silly A non stick pan well my cast iron pans I had and inherited and still own and use to this day make teflon pans seem like super glue Nothing sticks to my cast iron ever and they are a hundred years old
I got rid of all my non-stick pots and pans, I bought all stainless steel ones.
Perhaps The companies who make the forever chemicals and those who use it in their products should both be held accountable and sued to the point of bankruptcy. I know that near Fayetteville, NC there’s an area where the homeowners can no longer use their well water due to these chemicals. Special water purification systems have to be installed in each home by the polluter.
One of the most important changes that Americans must demand and US regulators _must_ make is to require the approach more common in Europe: If a company is going to introduce a newly developed chemical, medication, etc., they must first prove that public and environmental exposure to it is safe. The US standard of waiting to see whether or not it is _harmful compared to public benefit_ just doesn't cut it, and this is a textbook example of why.
If this amazing video interests you, read ‘Silent Spring’. Published in 1962 and written by Rachel Carson, it’s about the beginnings of these chemicals.
While working as a contractor on a DuPont TEL plant where they were "improving" their methods of releasing harmful chemicals into the environment we designed a water curtain to better capture certain polutants. Prior to this they just pumped it into the air, but as regulations stiffened Dupont increased the height of their smokestack twice and then added a blower and heater to supercharge the exhaust into the atmosphere. Each time the "improvement" was meant to disperse the material over a wider and wider area and into the population with less ppm across a larger area😳, so as to meet the new regulations. We completed the water curtain design but before it would be installed tetraethyl lead was banned for use in road vehicles in the United States. Dupont was issued a stay on the order to install the equipment and was allowed to continue to pollute for over a year because they could still sell the product elsewhere. Just not in the U.S. And so as not to lose a dime of profit they continued polluting the U.S. until TEL was "regulated" from profitability in other parts of the world. Isn't that funny😂?
Guys we just have to reform our way into salvation
Thanks for speaking up. I think contractors telling our stories will show the story behind the curtain with these companies, how they clearly and purposely pushed profits over following the rules for as long as possible. This is the information people need to see to show intent and disregard of everyone's safety. A cardboard box factory, that makes the boxes for average consumer goods, the inks they used were very concentrated, and came in 5 gallon buckets. They used to spray out the bucket with water when it was empty so it could be reused. That water drained into soil in "the pit" behind the plant where any water used to clean away chemical products would go, for the last 30 years. You could see where the drain ended, with a 50' ring of no plants or grass, then a sad grouping of sickly plants trying to grow 100' past that. They knew it was a problem, I was told to stay away from that area, because so much ink was in that soil, truck tires would get stained purple and leave stains across the entire parking lot and into the road, because it's happened a few times, and people would ask to many questions. Eventually they got cought with the bulk ink tank (2500 gallons) was leaking into the soil, we built them a concrete tub around it, but the pit was still there out back. I tried quietly to point it out to the inspector but it was "outside the permitted work area". And after saying that I was never called back for other jobs there, not so much as answering a call.
Funny not really
"The solution to pollution is dilution." "The way to avoid taking climate ameliorating action is to do more research studies about whether human intervention of climate is actually necessary: 'more science is needed'."
@@solconcordia4315 Bingo
How can we possibly improve our quality of living through science when corporations misuse science time and time again without any real accountability?
Big companies should be held accountable to never dump waste into the environment!! 🤦🏽♂️
Does anyone remember how long and fiercely the tobacco companies fought the idea that smoking cigarettes could cause lung cancer and other serious diseases? They spent billions on advertising and legal fees to stave off restrictions for 30 years.
They are still working hard to keep people smoking. The anti vape campaign has gone beautifully so far!
And these companies still exist and are present on the stock market. Altria is the first that comes to my mind. They should be in prison, every ceo accountable
This applies to Big chemicals and Big Pharma and also Big Animal Agriculture - in various ways
Anybody remember when RJ Reynolds Tobacco bought Nabisco Foods in 1985 before spinning it off to protect that portion of their business from the cigarette liability lawsuits? Is it a coincidence Nabsico changed the recipes of many of their products after the acquisition, switching from sugar to high fructose corn syrup to reduce costs and adding ingredients such as MSG to increase appetite and, therefore, sales?
@@Scarsuna Most Big Food companies did that. How about Coke moving from sucrose to HFCS? In South America where they grow a lot of sugar cane the Coke is still made with sucrose. You can buy it here but it cost about twice what the American made stuff costs.
I just tried sharing this on Facebook & was instantly hit with a Fact-checking disclaimer, before it even posted!! Wow, they really are the fact check police. I tend to believe things even more, seeing their sad attempts to steer us from the truth!
Not fact check police-FB is a corporate profit protection agency.
Meta rigs elections. Of course they rig anything for their big tech buddies. Our systems of information are ALL manipulated.
And you have two responses on this... but none of them are visible. I expect they were agreeing with you. It has been depressing.
@@leechowning2712 "Top Comments" and "Most Recent" are literally used to rig elections by hiding anything KZhead hates.
@@leechowning27124 replies, I only see yours
When I was younger, there was one block near my neighborhood that had three separate households affected by the same type of cancer.
This is scary so scary.
It's not the low level everyday employees fault. It's the CEO's and very top people that know about the harms it can cause
There's a need for whistleblowers
Indeed, the low-level employees are often the victims with some of the highest concentration exposure.
@@georgeo785there are, but it's a difficult choice, often it means losing not just your livelihood but your reputation, friends, family, etc. for a thankless and tireless task of going against a huge conglomerate which will launch a multifaceted attack. Whistleblower protections are a joke against corporate interests. The corporations will go out of there way to attack you in any angle they can, they will try to obscure the evidence that is not on their side, flood the airwaves with distractions, harass you, assassinate your character, hire "experts" to discredit you, file frivolous lawsuits, etc. etc.
Bro it's both. Everyone quit working at 3m no more 3m or they outsource. Then boycott because that works. Quit and boycott.
@@badxradxandy It would be a lot easier for workers to make ethical choices regarding who they work for if there was UBI to help tide them over and an adequate education which gave them a range of skills. As things stand many workers in USA have to choose between one or two terrible jobs and death (access to food, accomodation, and healthcare). The big corporations hold all the cards.
I recently discovered tea bags have plastic in them. Why?? Why tea bags! Can't we have one thing that's natural?
I don't use k cups for this reason....plastic
Yes, even paper tea bags have a thin plastic filament inside. Toilet paper has bleach and formaldehyde in it. Lovely stuff to wipe your baby-making bits with...
Not until people start to wake up. And you are still asleep or you wouldn't be asking why...
They make facial scrubs with micro plastic that is specifically designed to go straight into our waterways & seas
@@sTraYa249 and our skin
Watching this makes me sick. Such an evil thing being done and for what?
When this companies will held accountable? Is also like the plastic bottle factory in Texas where many people have cancer. R.I.P young lady and my sincere condolences to her family
I can attest to how dangerous these chemicals are! My sister cannot sit on any scotch-guarded furniture without ending up with giant red welts on her entire body! Sometimes even just walking through a furniture department in a store is enough to set it off. WHY are we being poisoned so badly??!!!
Your sister probably suffers from allergies to the furniture's chemical anti-stain treatment. Chemical allergies are rather common. I myself suffer from the red coloring of the printed labels of some things. I knew of another person who was allergic to red coloring, too. I try to keep track of my allergic responses to various things and avoid these things in the future to minimize problems. Allergies can have very severe symptoms including asphyxiation and death.
So there's hope
@@solconcordia4315what are allergies?
@lac19951 you can look up the word allergies for a definition. I wouldn't use Google to do that, it's becoming almost useless for reliable basic info. Try using other search engines like Ecosia or Qwant for clear, comprehensive word definitions. These are European search engines used by many universities worldwide.
@@solconcordia4315 The symptoms of allergies can be very similar to the symptoms of chronic low-level exposure to toxic substances.
As someone in the military i have sprayed all my gear and uniforms with water resistant sprays. My boots, my daily uniforms, my tents and sleeping systems. It rained so much in japan now im concerned about my levels and how much pfas have spilled into the japanese water and reefs because i know i wasnt the only one.
It’s not like there was a warning label to you that so don’t feel bad about it. Hope you don’t have any further complications
So it helped to keep you alive or from seriously ill at the time. I wonder what the overall trade off would have been kind of like oil. It seems however if this wasn't killing us something else would be anyway.
My husband works in construction industry and he told me he works with and around these chemicals all the time.
These crimes should be punished with severe prison sentences... Not monetary fines.
This goes to show why there is a cancer pandemic 1 person is diagnosed with cancer every 10 minutes and some don't even know they are living with it.
Toxic chemicals and heavy metals contained in vaccines are no stangers either to the last 3 years of aggressive cancer pandemic ...Cancers are cells poisoning
How scary is that? I am mortified that these huge companies have been allowed to inflict these chemicals on an unsuspecting population.
This has been by design. Follow patterns: they change company/chemical names... still the same poison. Also, follow the money.
pesticides we put on our food crops are just as worse as PFOS etc. there isnt a square inch on earth where there isnt pesticide contamination. more so found in colder areas north artic and south pole.
I wonder if an enemy of the state was funding it all . Makes sense .
this is just the tip of the iceberg - when you research this and what other american companies are doing worldwide and getting away with you begin to realize that global warming is a minor issue.
This is so important. Terrifying.
Makes me sick, I grew up in Oakdale and Lk. Elmo Mn. Dad passed away at 50 of cancer, no other cancer in family… five years later city rapidly supplies water to our neighborhood. just hope and pray I can see my kids grow up.
This documentary needs more views because forever chemicals can effect just about everyone!
Can? They already have... And the word is affect
Share it! Share it to other social media platforms, share it in emails, texts, etc
This is what happens when you empower your corporations to be more powerful than your governments through regulatory capture allowing most of the people we elevate to control the levers in our society tend toward psychopathy. The guardrails are gone and we have no brakes.
agreed, 3m executives going back to the beginning, if theyre alive, and should be tried and arrested
STOP LOBBYISTS
Write to congress about changing the "people" status of corporations so they no longer enjoy the right to endlessly funded, decades-long court battles.
We were so concerned about if we could... Never thinking about if we should...
It began even earlier than the 60's...
Well that explains our messed up immune systems ...
No, that was the jabs
@@AH-lw2bj the two are not mutually exclusive. you can easily have both
I served in the US Navy and the base i was station on was heavily contaminated with PFAS. now I fighting with the VA to get this service connected.
I had no idea. I thought we fixed this in the 90s. But the genie was already out of the bottle. DuPont ... SMH.
We in America talk about how tolerant and moral we are of people, yet we are enabling everyone to be poisoned.
It's sad that powerful companies never get held accountable for the poison they cause. Things need to change
Prison time should be a option no matter how much money you have, but alas this is the USA.
They payroll politicians to gain favor.
I'm sure that their DEI and ESG scores are great though, because that's what matters of course.
STOP LOBBYISTS
@@alihenderson5910and how there going to be carbon net zero by 2030...smh.
We drilled (geotechnical/environmental) on a job site that was originally occupied by a firefighter training site where they used to extinguish purposely set flames with flame retardant chemicals for over 2 decades. It was an isolated site but due to close proximity of urban sprawl, the area needed to be tested. The contaminates were through-out the soil and likely in the vegetation surrounding the area. You need to dig deep, literally. Its everywhere and you don't even know it.
Ur Absolutely Accurate
My girlfriend and here sister went to the local school that was built on land previously owned by the US military.. It turned out the ground was radioactive. Kids joked at the time called the school radiation high....
Firechief. Died. Heart . Toxic exposure ignored.
Look at terrain modification dr.casser Hawaii sauna of firefighter, scraping toxic out!!
Forest fire brevard County Florida, dead bees dead butterfly dead racoons dead birds, chemicals on forests fires ...goes in water,ground water...California fires..who's investigating?
Wonderful job. I’m so grateful there are people like you to put these kinds of exposes together. I’m always telling my wife of all the things I’ve learned over the years from my mom who is a chiropractor and other alternate health people that I’ve met over the years and just strange circumstances, bumping into people who’ve worked in different areas and working and heavy industry myself. But it never seems to get through to her when I say stuff so it’s wonderful to hear you say the stuff that I say to her maybe she’ll listen now..(sorry about the terrible grammar I’m using speech to text and I don’t have a time to fix it. Lol.)
A big meeting in Ottawa is pretending to do something about ocean plastics. Our waste disposal in Canada is scandalous !
We all deserve compensation for being poisoned. I've been working with the elderly for several years. I cannot even describe the horrific side effects that people are suffering from, from being around industry chemicals during their careers. It's not worth your health. A lot of my elderly clients could not afford to survive anymore so many chose medically assisted suicide. I have absolutely no hope for the future of humanity and I feel awful for the kids who are going to suffer so much more than we can even imagine
In nature you shouldnt even be an elderly😅
@@mjade1673: You are missing the point.
@@cathlaurs9754 perhaps your missing mine :)
@@cathlaurs9754 you're both right
Just food for thought- a lot of medical saving devices and equipment have pfos in them everything with plastics or plastic coatings - iv bags tubing gowns and cleaning products hospital full of them
There should be a lawsuit against these companies
There have been. Tennessee River is contaminated with this, many municipal water supplies were effected and the cancer rate has soared. To my knowledge no families have sued based on the loss of family members or for medical bills, but the water company did sue and built better filtration systems but the customers paid for this via higher rates and the EPA raised the amount allowed..
who's gonna sue them? The governments and law firms they own? 😂😂😂 imagine thinking you can rely on this system.
No, the entire system must be torn down from the bottom up. End it. The last 150 years of capitalism vs. socialism has just been a false debate of two worldviews that both worship money as the center and purpose of everything. Only when it goes, can human life, animal life and nature have a chance again.
Absolutely correct!!! That's why we should elect JFK,jr because he's the one that has been going after these criminal companies and take no money from them!!!
Lake worth FL sued .... but it's for the city to get the water filtered not citizens with cancers
Most carpet manufacturers have stopped using PFAS, which were previously used to make carpets stain- and soil-resistant. The U.S. carpet industry began transitioning away from PFOS, PFOA, and other long-chain PFAS chemicals in 2008. As of January 2020, retailers like The Home Depot and Lowe's have stopped selling carpets and rugs treated with PFAS. -Generative AI
The craziest part to me is your computer mouse glides around on 100% PTFE mouse feet - look it up. And most car waxes and rain protection products contain it too. Food packaging can linings also usually made of PFAS today.
To continue to produce this knowing the effects should be treated as terrorism!
Yet the people that really try to save the earth are portrayed as criminals when the polluting companies are the real ones..Turn your back on this corrupt money conscious society.ATWA.
This is not new. I taught about it in my science classes in the early '70s. This is only part of the story. All the persistent pesticides are also part of the problem. Any chemicals that mimic hormones are a problem.
It's been years, I don't know how many, since I've first heard the term "toxic environment". Back then, it referred to the unhealthy food in stores everywhere. Now, plastic and chemicals are not just everywhere around us, but in us. I wonder where this will lead. The world becomes a more difficult place to live in every day, it seems.
As somone with an autoimmune disease, this hits home hard
Since I moved from the from Nova Scotia back in the late 80s, I never drink anything that wasn’t filter again because I know what they did. My father was a chemical engineer and said the company that he was working for was destroying the environment he worked for Dupont.
May you share what kind of filter? Is it meant to also filter these "forever chemicals"?
@@pompokkkoBest is probably a water distiller.
This issue needs more attention, more awareness and more action from people in power!
....the people in power are the problem....we give them the money to be in power by consuming, consuming, consuming....
STOP LOBBYISTS
Politicians are only concerned to stay in power and the corporation owners and CEO’s pay for them to stay in office to keep protecting them.
Truly eye-opening and terrifying. Thank you for exposing this to the public!
Don't these CEOs , shareholders whoever have children , grandchildren? Do they value money more than family? Who are these sick people.?
Within the first 12 mins I was tearing up. This is devastating on every level for humanity and our environment. We are practically helpless to it.
Not practically… we are! 😢
Stop crying. Be informed. Be empowered. Psychological operation 101 is demoralise the enemy. Psychopaths run these corporations. Look into ways to detox these and heavy metals from your system. There are ways. Know your enemy and know yourself.
I have met many rich and some wealthy people who are not not smarter than a 4th grader. My assumption is they are inferior in every way possible .I think most just bought into some evil idealisms that would propel them economically.with that said corporate would embrace this parasite idealisms and there you go corporations had no other agenda other than profits to feed the their counterpart parasites.if your religion is respect for planet and people then the reassembling of structures of thinking must be a part of the solution if their is a solution. We were never taught in schools to consider where we heading with the dogmatic thinking but instead were taught to work hard and maybe someday we could get a JOB With 3m or maybe Monsanto or any of the large overpowering oil companies or the pharma companies or the list goes on .and we consumed without regard as well which made each of us complicint. Dang it anyway.
Start supplementing with potassium IODIDE
I'd like to know where the general public in the US can have samples (soil, water and blood) tested for these chemicals, other toxic chemicals, microplastics and heavy metals. Resources for general society to test for these things is rare and expensive. Testing needs to be made commonly available. I believe these contaminants are causing infertility and I'd like to know why doctors and infertility clinics are not testing infertile individuals for these contaminants. I've struggled with infertility for 20 years and none of my doctors will test my blood for these contaminants. Why? Women are having multiple failed transfers of genetically normal embryos. In my case, my embryos all die after implantation, with no known cause. Why aren't they testing to see if these contaminants are the problem? 4 of my family members have Parkinson's Disease. Why aren't they being tested for these contaminants? All the women in my family have had fertility and reproductive problems. Our pet dogs get tumors. Why aren't doctors saying "hey, maybe there's a correlation with this family's problems"? And why aren't more people discussing how to remove these contaminants from our bodies? This is spiraling out of control and we need to be more proactive! The media needs to run with this information!
@HoodsHomestead you have PFAS in your home everywhere, including your computer. I don't know what the deal is with you wanting testing when they are literally everywhere and you cannot avoid contamination at this point in history. The question is not removing these chemicals, it is managing them responsibly, like passing better environmental laws on dumping them into our soils and water systems, restricting their use in consumer products, etc.
@@christianmama2441 while it is true that toxic chemicals are essentially unavoidable at this time, it's not something we should turn a blind eye to. It's important to know the amount of exposures and make life choices accordingly. For example: I want to know if there is an excessively high amount in our soil because that will in impact if I use it for agriculture (we have 11 acres). I want to know what the levels are in the well water, so I can decide if some additional filtration if necessary and if using that water poses a danger to us, our pets and agriculture. It's important to know if your land and water has excessively high amounts because it could indicate a nearby polluting source that needs to be investigated. And lastly, I want to test the levels in my body because I've had 23 years of unexplainable infertility, 4 family members have Parkinson's Disease and others have had alzheimers and dementia (all ailments said to be associated with chemical exposures). It's important we are aware of what's happening around us, what our exposures are and to know when we need to take action to protect ourselves and the environment.
Here in the Netherlands, Dordrecht, there's a Chemours factory as well. "Zembla" did some documentaries on it and if I understood it correctly the employees there had even more forever chemicals in their blood than their American factory colleagues. Imagine.... Black Water paints the picture dark enough and then finding out it might even be worse over here.