{"id":105635,"date":"2024-07-31T17:45:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T17:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/31\/some-forever-chemicals-maybe-absorbed-through-our-skin\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T17:45:31","slug":"some-forever-chemicals-maybe-absorbed-through-our-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/31\/some-forever-chemicals-maybe-absorbed-through-our-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Some \u2018forever chemicals\u2019 maybe absorbed through our skin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forever chemicals are everywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re in school uniforms<\/a>, food packaging<\/a>, cosmetics<\/a> and personal care products (SNE: 11\/18\/22; SN: 6\/4\/19; SN: 6\/15\/21<\/em>). They seep into our food and drinking water. And now new research suggests that some can move through the skin, posing yet another avenue through which humans are intimately exposed to these chemicals, which have been linked to harmful health issues.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When 3-D human skin models were exposed to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, the chemicals could cross the skin barrier<\/a>, environmental chemists from the University of Birmingham in England report in the June Environment International.<\/em> That suggests the compounds can be absorbed through the skin and may even travel into the bloodstream.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n