A novel metric that estimates our"burden," or cumulative exposure, to a family of thousands of synthetic chemicals that we encounter in everyday life with potentially adverse health impacts, has been created by a team of researchers at Mount Sinai.
PFAS is a class of more than 5,000 chemicals whose fluorine-carbon bond gives them the ability to repel oil and water. That construct has made them an integral part of a growing number of industrial applications and consumer products in recent decades, such as stain and water repellents, Teflon nonstick pans, paints, cleaners, and food packaging.
Mount Sinai researchers used national biomonitoring data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to develop their exposure burden score using item response theory. Item response theory was developed in the educational testing literature to score standardized tests, and Mount Sinai researchers are the first to use it in environmental epidemiology to develop an exposure burden score, highlighted by this transdisciplinary investigation.
Moreover, the calculator offers a straightforward way to include exposure biomarkers with low detection frequencies, and to reduce exposure measurement errors by considering both a participant's concentrations and their exposure patterns to estimate exposure burden to chemical mixtures.
physorg_com MountSinaiNYC For two decades I have told people not to use Teflon cookware. We use it in high purity water, pharmaceuticals, semiconductor mfg, etc. When overheated it isn’t healthy, doesn’t belong in cosmetics, food, waterproofing sprays, or any single use applications.
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