PFAS in the body through eggs?

Recently, the potentially harmful substance group PFAS has been in the media again, and this time the arrows are being pointed at eggs from hobby chickens.

It is true that eggs from hobby hens are usually not tested and that there is more risk of exposure to these substances when the hens run loose and find much of their food there rather than in the feed trough. Also, hobby chickens tend to get older which means and more PFAS can accumulate in the body and thus the egg. So there is definitely a grain of truth in this and it would be nice to see advice issued on how to reduce the chances of PFAS contamination when keeping chickens of one's own.

But to now throw out a warning that it is better not to eat these eggs and only use supermarket eggs is going a bit far, especially when relatively little is still known about these substances and of course by no means all eggs from hobby hens have high levels. Moreover, there are many more foods on sale in the supermarket that may contain PFAS and not all of them are tested yet either.

As always, the motto is to eat a varied diet to ensure risk spreading and get enough healthy substances to support your liver, for instance. The fact that we ingest bad substances from the environment is, unfortunately, not entirely avoidable in this day and age. Yet in health terms, there are even bigger problems than toxins, namely the development of obesity and metabolic syndrome. And this risk is increasing due to an even obesogenic environment in which we live, with plenty of ultra-processed snacks which releases so many happiness chemicals that it is incredibly difficult to limit calorie intake.

 

There, it would RIVM well really should warn about it and politicians should make it a key item on the agenda. But then again, it makes so much money so nicely hehe... the high five between the food industry and the pharmaceutical industry