2/ Risks from #foreverchemicals include Diabetes, obesity, testicular #cancer, developmental delays...
Some researchers think that anyone exposed to these chemicals will have an elevated cancer risk.
At ANY concentration.
Since scientists estimate that we ALL have at least one of these forever chemicals in our blood...
That would be all of us.
3/ If the "we are all at risk of cancer" from #foreverchemicals framing for some reason doesn't bug you, consider the taxpayer costs.
Numbers are staggering.
$64 billion in estimated increased disease burden in a single year.
Meanwhile #3M makes $1.5 billion a year from making the stuff.
And 16,000 of 3M's products still contain the chemical.
While company pledges to wind down manufacture. They haven't stopped.
To date, 3m has not admitted wrongdoing and faced no criminal liability