Your baby’s blood may have plastic baggage!!
This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science.
Childhood leukemia is the most common cancer in kids. Rates keep rising. Are PFAS to blame?
PFAS are chemicals that never break down. Food packaging is loaded with them.
Enter Veronica Vieira and team from University of California, Irvine. They analyzed blood from ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE children with leukemia and TWO HUNDRED NINETEEN healthy babies.
And? PFAS levels were HIGHER in babies who developed leukemia! Yet PFAS were detected in EVERY newborn’s blood. All children were exposed. Some are developing cancer!
Forever chemicals start before birth. Understanding these hidden exposures protect new generations, so their future isn’t plastic.
Vieira, V. M., Liu, S., Morimoto, L. M., Koelmel, J., Binczewski, N. R., Wiemels, J. L., … & Metayer, C. (2026). Targeted and non-targeted analyses of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in newborn dried blood spots and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 1-11.