Search results for query: pfas

  1. B

    Sitka shipping restrictions to CA and NY

    Gore has discontinued all pfas (fluorinated) products so everyone is in transition until the new products are incorporated into their clothing lines. Eliminating fluorocarbons in lots of industries has been going on for awhile now. The first that hit me that I saw was ski waxes a number of years...
  2. G

    Cookware

    Timely question as my wife is battling cancer. We just purged all the teflon and other PFAS products out of the house including plastic utensils and anything else that sees heat. We like cast iron for some tasks but nonstick is required for many things like eggs. Currently testing various...
  3. K

    Gore-tex / PFAS apparel "ban" - NY & CA first

    It’s not toxic to wear it, but it eventually gets into drinking water and it’s impossible to remove. PFAS has been found in extremely remote mountain lakes.
  4. peterk123

    Non Alcoholic After dinner drink

    I'm brewing my first batch right now. I hope it works. I completely stopped alcohol two months ago. Never was really a drinker but just seemed to make sense not to drink it at all.
  5. OXN939

    Non Alcoholic After dinner drink

    FYSA: https://www.delish.com/food-news/a44566150/pfas-chemicals-sparkling-water-explained/ Congrats on quitting, alcohol is the dumbest drug out there. Can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet, but try kombucha. Fizzy, tasty, probiotic, fraction of the sugar in most canned drinks.
  6. Mosby

    New State restrictions on boots

    ...online, I saw this new restriction on the Lowa website on states they can not ship too: State Restrictions: As of 1/1/2025, boots containing PFAS cannot be sold to residents of New York, California, and Minnesota. Not sure what other brands of boots might be affected by this new law but...
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  7. prm

    Toxic / endocrine disrupting chemicals in outdoor equipment & clothes.

    FWIW: per their website, the Prana Zion pants are PFAS-Free DWR Finish
  8. COJoe

    Cookware

    Sorry to hear that your wife is battling cancer, I pray she can overcome this. I just bought a restored cast iron skillet and seasoned it and have made eggs the past couple days with very easy clean up. I cooked the eggs in fat from ground beef with little bits of meat my wife cooked so it was...
  9. outlawstryker

    Cookware

    Do you make sure the cast iron is up to heat before cooking? If not give it a try, I only use cast iron for cooking and have zero issues with sticking.
  10. TomJoad

    Toxic / endocrine disrupting chemicals in outdoor equipment & clothes.

    ...excited. They put in pretty much everything and it was awesome. Eventually they encountered heath problems with their own workers and identified pfas in their blood. Pfas was also in neighboring water supplies. At a certain point in the 80s they tried to find clean blood (no trace of pfas)...
  11. Neumie

    Tyvek ground cloth

    Fwiw, Tyvek has PFAS in the coating.
  12. M

    What Happened to Sitka?

    Yes, various flourinated chemicals, PFC’s aka pfas. The EU is several years ahead of the US on this. Global supply chain=their problem is also our problem. Hang on to your gore tex jacket from 2020, the 2022 version is junk in comparison from a performance standpoint (non fluorinated DWR), and...
  13. E

    Gore-tex / PFAS apparel "ban" - NY & CA first

    ...but is actually an editorial, not a scientific paper at all. Even given its apparent deceptive presentation format, it admits "While PFAS body load correlates with many diseases, the actual increase is apparently relatively modest." How unfortunate that any increase is modest and not linked...
  14. H

    Lead ingestion health risks

    Thanks for your contribution. I’ll add the origins of COVID to my farcical list
  15. C

    Sitka Kelvin Aerolite no DWR

    there is currently a huge shake up with PFAS based DWR’s. So it make have a DWR, just not a good DWR. industry doesnt have a good alternative to PFAS based DWR. some people have come up with alternatives but lifecycle is fraction of the original factory applied PFAS DWR California outlawed...
  16. M

    What Happened to Sitka?

    ...you have some inside scoop…do you have a sense of what exactly the pressure is that is leading to these changes all at once? My theory was the pfas legislation in the EU and CA had a lot to do with it, with the membrane fabrics that are a huge part of gore’s overall business going away for...
  17. drdrop

    Black Ovis Anchor Point DWR

    ...pants. To answer your question, I'd be concerned about buying a bottle of your traditional DWR which has typically contained bioaccumulating PFAS known to have adverse health effects. Looks like Nikwax has been working on a safer solution that may not be available until the 2025 season...
  18. G

    Toxic / endocrine disrupting chemicals in outdoor equipment & clothes.

    We live in a community embroiled in a PFAS / PFOA controversy due to AFFF discharge at our airport. It’s showing up in a lot of groundwater samples at the parts per billion levels. Same stuff modern synthetic outdoor gear is loaded with. Long story short is that it probably isn’t good for your...
  19. H

    Sitka Kelvin Aerolite no DWR

    I spent 30 seconds googling so I’m by no means an expert by Nikwax professes to be PFAS free.
  20. C

    Sitka Kelvin Aerolite no DWR

    ...garment as the 1st step to reactivation. not saying Niki is a bad product(i use it and Granger) its just not near what a factory applied PFAS DWR is. If it was Kuiu, Sitka, arcteryx, would have a nice Nikwax tag along with all the other tags. I hope the scientist come up with a like or...

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