March 1, 2023, 8:58 p.m. – Public Information Service – TEH – American environmentalists have discovered that almost all brands of toilet paper sold in the United States, Western Europe and Africa contain perfluorinated organic compounds, which are dangerous industrial toxins and are difficult to break down in nature.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) press service reports that the scientists purchased samples from the respective regions and took water samples from water treatment plants.
The results showed that the paper and water samples contain organic fluorine compounds that can turn into dangerous carcinogens.
In other words, the so-called perfluorinated organic compounds (PFAS), which in turn disrupt the functioning of the thyroid gland, the immune system and many organs of the human body.
At the end of the last century, says the publication, ecologists discovered that the use of PFAS in the chemical industry was rapidly causing the molecules to accumulate in ecosystems and the human body.
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