{"id":125442,"date":"2022-08-16T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/2022\/08\/16\/pfas-forever-chemicals-from-toxic-sewage-sludge-and-military-waste-immunotoxicity-and-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T18:02:00","slug":"pfas-forever-chemicals-from-toxic-sewage-sludge-and-military-waste-immunotoxicity-and-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/pfas-forever-chemicals-from-toxic-sewage-sludge-and-military-waste-immunotoxicity-and-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"PFAS \u201cForever Chemicals\u201d (from Toxic Sewage Sludge and Military Waste), Immunotoxicity, and COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toxic sewage sludge applied as a \u201cfertilizer\u201d on agricultural lands is banned on any farm or ranch that is certified as Organic or Biodynamic, and for good reason. If an organic farm is contaminated with PFAS, this is almost always because it was contaminated before it became certified as organic. Read more about this on OCA’s Stop Toxic Sludge<\/a> campaign page.<\/span><\/p>\n

OCA\u2019s ally, Alliance for Natural Health, warns that there is a \u201cstartling connection between PFAS exposure and COVID-19 severity. A study published December 2020 in the journal PLoS, indicates that a specific perfluorinate may increase risk for more severe cases of Covid-19 pneumonia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Environmental Health Symposium reports<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cExposure to PFAS has been correlated with many different health conditions\u2014kidney and testicular cancer, low birth weight, thyroid disease, decreased sperm quality, cancer, thyroid disease, asthma, ulcerative colitis, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, reproductive damage and immunotoxicity. Areas with high levels of perfluorinates in drinking water have shown increased incidence of diabetes, cerebrovascular diseases, myocardial infarction, and Alzheimer\u2019s disease in both sexes and kidney cancer, breast cancer, and Parkinson\u2019s disease in females\u2026 A study published December 2020 in the journal PLoS, indicates that a specific perfluorinate may increase risk for more severe cases of Covid-19 pneumonia. \u2018It\u2019s probably what\u2019s in the lungs that counts because that\u2019s where the big Covid battle is fought,\u2019 said Philippe Grandjean, the principal author of the study looking at Covid-19 hospitalized patients and their PFAS levels.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Grandjean\u2019s study involved 323 patients with Covid-19, 215 of whom were hospitalized. The researchers analyzed the blood of these patients for the presence of five PFAS compounds known to be immunotoxic and found that only perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA), was associated with the severity of the disease. More than half of those seriously ill with Covid-19 had elevated PFBA levels in their plasma, while less than 20 percent of those with mild illness had elevated levels of the chemical.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more: PFAS the \u201cForever Chemicals\u201d, Immunotoxicity, and Covid-19<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Read more about how military bases are the major source of PFAS pollution in the U.S.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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