My computer popped up a random news article about chemicals leeching from plastic water bottles into the water you drink (CNN article). After saying “duh!” I wondered why it came out now after DECADES of people complaining and I found this from 1 year ago:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/27/lawsuit-houston-company-inhance-forever-chemicals-pfas
Then I again questioned the timing and did a search on who else was running the story and found these all within the past 3 days:
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/10/1223730333/bottled-water-plastic-microplastic-nanoplastic-study
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/10/bottled-water-nanoplastics-new-study/72166433007/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/08/health/bottled-water-nanoplastics-study-wellness/index.html
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Food/massive-amounts-tiny-plastics-found-bottled-drinking-water/story?id=106250289
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-01-08/thousands-of-nanoplastics-found-in-bottled-drinking-water
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-08/bottled-water-contains-previously-undetected-nanoplastics
What outcome are they hoping to achieve from this or what exactly are they trying to get in front of? Cancer lawsuits or worse?