In short, my girlfriend keeps talking about PFAs. Yesterday she showed me a series of PFA removal devices that are supposed to remove 100% of them from tap water. All of them are either expensive upfront of expensive over time with the filter replacements. Is it worth trying to remove them from my drinking water?
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PFOAs/PFAS are a category of compounds which brought about products such as Teflon, Goretex, etc. Ingesting or breathing in these chemicals have been shown definitively to cause health problems, birth defects, etc, and they are likely to stay in your body and accumulate over time. Google it and horrified at Dupont and 3Ms cover up of the effects which they’ve known for over half a century.
Depending on your tap water source, you can find the water quality data from your provider (website usually). There is no safe level of PFOAs/PFAS, but the lesser amount you expose yourself to the better.
I use the Brita Elite filters, which does a great job of filtering out the stuff. But I wouldn’t go full doomsday filtration system shopping until you verify how clean your water supplier is.
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