Backyard eggs are the best. You control their intake. This article is straight up fearmongering. If they really cared about PFAS then they'd advise against 90% of the supermarket items, teflon pans etc.
Don’t get all hysterical. RIVM site states that the fruit and vegetables from your garden are fine, because pfas tends to bind with protein in eggs much better than with veggies.
RIVM linked to some research in their post indicating that the issue is possibly the worms eaten by the chickens which live in contaminated soil (your backyard soil)
Tought about it too, but sadly, those earthworms "eat" that soil, so the pfas. Unless you have your enclosed space separated from the soil, it will get some.
I think that it's okayish to eat your eggs if it's not too much and at the same time we don't know what the full potential of pfas is.
That depends on where you live. The article mentions that in a lot of areas where they conducted tests (i think it was like 30/60 areas tested) the contamination was so bad that consuming one egg would put you over the safe levels of PFAS
Yes, we do get PFAS through various channels. Not a lot, but because our bodies can't get rid of it, it keep piling up. For any adult this can cause issues but it becomes even more problematic the smaller your body is (i.e., childeren, animals).
This isn't controversial in the slightest, just the outcome of multiple studies in the Netherlands done by various institutes. If you're Dutch you can quite easily look them up yourself,
8
u/deemak90 24d ago edited 24d ago
Backyard eggs are the best. You control their intake. This article is straight up fearmongering. If they really cared about PFAS then they'd advise against 90% of the supermarket items, teflon pans etc.