Oh great, pollution synergy exists.

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Combined Impact of Microplastics and PFAS on Aquatic Life: Study Reveals Greater Environmental Harm

• A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Birmingham has shed light on the combined impact of microplastics and PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) on aquatic life, revealing that their combined effect is more detrimental than either chemical alone.

• The study utilized Daphnia, commonly known as water fleas, as a model organism due to their high sensitivity to chemicals, allowing researchers to assess the long-term effects of chemical mixtures on their entire life cycle.

• The findings indicate that the combination of microplastics and PFAS leads to severe toxic effects, including developmental failures, delayed sexual maturity, stunted growth, and reduced reproduction in Daphnia.

• The study highlights the importance of considering the chronic effects of chemical mixtures, as previous exposures to other chemicals and environmental threats can weaken organisms' ability to tolerate novel chemical pollution.

• The research emphasizes the need for regulatory frameworks that address the unintended combinations of pollutants in the environment and calls for a revision of current methods for assessing environmental toxicity to better understand the risks posed by emerging contaminants like microplastics and PFAS.

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-microplastics-pfas-daphnia-combined-impact.amp 

 Microplastics and pfa's contaminate much of the food supply too.

Fluorine is a menace. The reason it's used so much is that about 1/3 of the supply of phosphate comes from fluorapatite. The sulfuric acid treatment yields a mix of HF and H2SO4 and calcium, and even better, this means that most gypsum, ie, calcium sulfate, used in household interior plasters, is contaminated with hydrofluoric acid.

The epidemic of bipolar disorder and slow metabolism is mostly caused by fluoride poisoning the thyroid. 

 Yep! Even the US government recently admitted current fluoride levels were making less intelligent to a detrimental degree. 

 Oops. I read Fluoride 😆  

 Hydrofluoric acid is fluoride but PFAs are where you take hydrocarbons and reduce the hydrogens off and substitute with fluorine. So technically PFAs contain fluorine. But fluorine is aggressive stuff and will eat almost everything, it has the highest pka and can drive even sulfur off stuff, which is otherwise the most resistant acid ion in salts... IE, if you get HF and put it on gypsum it forms calcium fluoride and sulfuric acid.