Quote Originally Posted by tripleblessed View Post
Off topic but related, Teflon reportedly has showed up in the blood of people in remote parts of Siberia thousands of miles from any known source. Of course,
you can read all kinds of stuff without being able to verify.
More off topic, but I can actually speak to that. This was back in the late 90's. Our lab was one of only about three in the country that had specialized instruments to do sensitive development work for pharmaceutical companies. One of the projects was to find this drug in rabbit plasma. Two of my lab partners worked on it directly, while I was only peripheral. Dave Anderson could not find blank rabbit plasma for this drug. This interference kept getting in the way. It was even in our high purity water generator. Commercial sources of rabbit plasma had this interference. Then we found it in human plasma. Eventually we did find a source of rabbit plasma without this interference, and it was from rabbits raised in Siberia (at that time, I don't know about now). The interference was PFOA/PFAS from Teflon. Whether Dave was the first to find it, or just found how far it had traveled I don't remember. We did get some journal papers out of it. And the owner of the company was asking me a few months ago what I remembered, as he had to discuss it at an upcoming conference.