'Forever Chemicals' Found In 95% of Beers Tested In the U.S. (sciencedaily.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/13/014244/forever-chemicals-found-in-95-of-beers-tested-in-the-us
- Source link: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250911073204.htm
> Forever chemicals known as PFAS have turned up in an unexpected place: beer. Researchers [2]tested 23 different beers from across the U.S. and found that 95% contained PFAS, with the highest concentrations showing up in regions with known water contamination. The findings reveal how pollution in municipal water supplies can infiltrate popular products, raising concerns for both consumers and brewers...
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> [PFAS] have been found in surface water, groundwater and municipal water supplies across the U.S. and the world. Although breweries typically have water filtration and treatment systems, they are not designed to remove PFAS... [T]he researchers call for greater awareness among brewers, consumers and regulators to limit overall PFAS exposure. These results also highlight the possible need for water treatment upgrades at brewing facilities as PFAS regulations in drinking water change or updates to municipal water system treatment are implemented.
"I hope these findings inspire water treatment strategies and policies that help reduce the likelihood of PFAS in future pours," research lead Jennifer Hoponick Redmon said in [3]a May announcement about their research .
[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250911073204.htm
[2] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c11265
[3] https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2025/may/research-reveals-forever-chemicals-present-in-beer.html
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Doesn't matter. Their study is flawed. 100% of beers contain dihydrogen monoxide. We still haven't figured out how to purify our beers from it.
Fluorine chemistry is fucked (Score:2)
Organofluorine chemistry should just be banned except for tiny amounts (ie. pharmaceuticals). Green Peace got it almost right with chlorine, just a few letters off.
Of course it won't be ... just another slow motion disaster to joint all the others.
Cookies are the real contaminant (Score:2)
Linked site wants me to accept cookies, why?
"Oh, ken, you don't understand, these cookies only make the site work correctly." Yeah right.
For me the bigger news (Score:2)
Was finding out that 9 out of 10 vape pens had elevated levels of lead, cadmium and other heavy metals.
And it wasn't consistent. There's no magic brand you can buy that is free from lead and cadmium heavy metals.
It's still up for debate how bad vaping by itself is but there's no debate that you shouldn't be breathing in lead and heavy metal. And I don't mean Judas Priest.
Now would be a good time for regulation but fat chance on that. Hell the only reason I had even heard about it was an offhand
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"elevated levels" is FUD. Wheres the evidence there are harmful levels?
Whiskey (Score:2)
Damn it! After I heard water is polluted with microplastics, I switched to beer. What am I supposed to drink now? Oh... whiskey.
I can hear it already (Score:1)
"Eh, so what! Just accept some plastics, it won't kill you...quickly." But I assume beer would cost substantially higher if they did manager to filter PFAS out, so that probably won't happen.
Beer? Who cares? (Score:2)
People don't drink beer for their health; and frequent drinkers who should be concerned by heavy exposure would be the most concerned if this was soda or coffee but this is beer; these heavy users care the least (that is, not enough to quit.)
To make enough people care, you need connect these artificial hormones to more than low sperm counts; you need to link it to small penises, man boobs, and the increase in trans people and breast cancer, prostate cancer... I'm not even making those up; they really could
The only reason the number is 95% (Score:2)
Is because the other 5% were false negatives.
Chemical assays nowadays can detect near-single-molecule quantities of stuff. The problem is that we don’t really understand what concentration of these molecules are bad for you (yet).
There’s radioactivity in literally every object on the planet. Lead and Arsenic contamination is detectable in every object you put in your mouth. Same goes for PFAS.
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Really! This is the question. There's detectable levels and there's toxic levels. There's acute toxic levels and there's chronic toxic levels. How many orders of magnitude are these things separated. I grow weary of the alarmist crap that we're constantly bombarded with because journalist can't, in general, do math. We need numbers to be informed.
Oh, I'm sorry. I guess 95% of bears is a number after all.
Odd focus on ground water (Score:2)
What about the plastic liners in the beer cans that remain in contact with an organic solvent?
This is why (Score:3)
I stick to Scotch.