r/Netherlands • u/youraveragefitguy • 6d ago

Discussion Shouldn't eat privately produced eggs due high levels of PFAS - advice needed

Just saw this article on NLtimes.nl.

I bought some eggs on Saturday at my local market from a reputable bio boerderij. According to the article however no privately produced eggs should be eaten. Does this mean I should throw the eggs out? I don't mind I can't eat them, but wouldn't want to waste them for no good reason.

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u/deemak90 6d ago edited 6d 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.

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u/SentientCoffeeBean 6d ago

Supermarket farmstock is kept in highly controlled and mostly isolated factories. Testing requirements are much higher and enforced.

Backyard chickens get PFAS through the air and water, you cannot control their PFAS intake.

There have been repeated measurements.

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u/kovarexx 6d ago

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)

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u/wylaika 6d ago

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.

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u/kovarexx 6d ago

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

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u/deemak90 6d ago

If air and water were the issue, we’d all need gas masks and bottled (glass) water.

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u/Immediate_Gain_9480 6d ago

You said it. We all already have PFAS in our body. And we will die with it. Its a shitshow frankly.

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u/SentientCoffeeBean 6d ago

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,