Toxins in BBQ Fumes May Be Absorbed Through the Skin

[Elderberry]

Health Day 5/23/2018

When you fire up the grill for your Memorial Day cookout, beware: Those tantalizing aromas hold an underestimated health risk.

Grilling meats at a high temperature can produce cancer-causing compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). You can be exposed to significant PAH levels simply by breathing in the sweet scent of barbecue.

A new study from China suggests letting your skin come into contact with PAHs when you grill food is even more harmful than just savoring the aroma. And clothing won't fully protect you against them.

PAHs can cause lung disease and DNA mutations, the researchers said. Though eating barbecued meats is the most common source of exposure, just standing near a grill and breathing PAH-contaminated air can be risky, previous studies have shown.

For the latest study, published May 23 in Environmental Science & Technology, a team led by Eddy Y. Zeng at Jinan University closely examined skin exposure to PAHs from barbecue fumes and particles.

More: https://consumer.healthday.com/environmental-health-information-12/chemical-health-news-730/toxins-in-bbq-fumes-may-be-absorbed-through-the-skin-734081.html

[Elderberry]

What will these Do Gooders think up next?

[catfish1957]

$5 says

Consumer Health Day =  Left Wing Vegans pushing their agenda.

[WingNot]

You had me till "A new study from China suggests"

 

[catfish1957]

You had me till "A new study from China suggests"

 

As far as I am concerned any SOB who messes with my BBQ has gotta be a left-winger.

[240B]

I was mildly interested until the part about "clothing won't protect you." That's just silly. But yes, this will be used by some wacko Left groups to try to outlaw cooking barbeque in public. It's a second hand smoke risk now, doncha know.

It won't stop me. My friends say I am a studly barbequeer. And when they want it, when they get the urge, I like them too much to say no.

[WingNot]

Didn't Cali outlaw Charcoal BBQ's?   

[aligncare]

BREAKING NEWS: Scientists Discover Yet Another Thing To Worry About. 

[240B]

BREAKING NEWS: Scientists Discover Yet Another Thing To Worry About. 

Doesn't worry me in the least. Just wait a year. BBQ will be the new Vitamin C.

Coffee will kill you! Coffee is very good for your liver.
Bacon will kill you! Bacon has some beneficial effects.
Fat is deadly! Consumption of fat is necessary for a health body.

[driftdiver]

I was mildly interested until the part about "clothing won't protect you." That's just silly. But yes, this will be used by some wacko Left groups to try to outlaw cooking barbeque in public. It's a second hand smoke risk now, doncha know.

It won't stop me. My friends say I am a studly barbequeer. And when they want it, when they get the urge, I like them too much to say no.

@240B
If clothing won't protect you then perhaps they advocate BBQing in the nude.   Just dont stand too close.

[WingNot]

@240B
If clothing won't protect you then perhaps they advocate BBQing in the nude.   Just dont stand too close.

Apron Chaps would be a nice touch.

[240B]

@240B
If clothing won't protect you then perhaps they advocate BBQing in the nude.   Just dont stand too close.

Wait...what? Are there people who BBQ wearing clothes? Sounds like a good way to ruin a perfectly good shirt. That BBQ smell takes a while to go away. No man. The only way to BBQ is nude with an apron. At least, that's the only way I have ever done it. This is a pic of my favorite apron.

[driftdiver]

Wait...what? Are there people who BBQ wearing clothes? Sounds like a good way to ruin a perfectly good shirt. That BBQ smell takes a while to go away. No man. The only way to BBQ is nude with an apron. At least, that's the only way I have ever done it. This is a pic of my favorite apron.

heck I won't even bbq barefoot anymore.   I used to walk out onto my patio barefoot to tend my Big Green Egg ^TM  but stepping on a hot coal that fell out put a sudden stop to that practice.

Note: hot coals tend to stick to your foot once you step on them.  So its not just a simple matter of lifting your foot, or even brushing the coal off.   No you have to dig the burning ember out of your foot while screaming bloody murder.

[RoosGirl]

Wait...what? Are there people who BBQ wearing clothes? Sounds like a good way to ruin a perfectly good shirt. That BBQ smell takes a while to go away. No man. The only way to BBQ is nude with an apron. At least, that's the only way I have ever done it. This is a pic of my favorite apron.

I wear that same apron.

[driftdiver]

I wear that same apron.

@RoosGirl
I think you were telling us about those yesterday.

But its a good look on ya

[240B]

I wear that same apron.

It was bought for me by a friend. It's not my first choice, but the guys I hang with seem to like it. So, they are my friends, so I give them whatever they want.

[RoosGirl]

@RoosGirl
I think you were telling us about those yesterday.

But its a good look on ya

Theae are my masturbatory thoughts of watering my bbq grill, or something like that.

[Sanguine]

There was an article a while back showing that humans have developed an adaptation that means the "carcinogens" produced while grilling don't affect us. 

And, when a study "suggests", there is no story there. 

[catfish1957]

There was an article a while back showing that humans have developed an adaptation that means the "carcinogens" produced while grilling don't affect us. 

And, when a study "suggests", there is no story there.

So when all our ancestors were sitting around the fire 50.000 years ago eating mammoth steaks, strange they all didn't die of cancer from PAH poisoning.

[Sanguine]

So when all our ancestors were sitting around the fire 50.000 years ago eating mammoth steaks, strange they all didn't die of cancer from PAH poisoning.

They wouldn't have lived long enough to do so.   

Here's that study.  And, it was breathing, not eating.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/modern-humans-beat-neanderthals-because-we-can-happily-breathe-in-toxic-smoke-from-cooking-meat-a7169531.html

[Frank Cannon]

a team led by Eddy Y. Zeng at Jinan University

What they don't tell you is that this Chinaman was cooking over old tires and batteries for this study.

[RoosGirl]

a team led by Eddy Y. Zeng at Jinan University

What they don't tell you is that this Chinaman was cooking over old tires and batteries for this study.

Battery fires give a nice piquant flavor to the meat.

[Frank Cannon]

Battery fires give a nice piquant flavor to the meat.

I guess if your meat of choice is rat or Labrador Retriever you need that flavor profile. 

[240B]

a team led by Eddy Y. Zeng at Jinan University

What they don't tell you is that this Chinaman was cooking over old tires and batteries for this study.

They also don't mention 'what' he was barbequing. Cats? Feral dogs? Monkey brains? Llama eyeballs? Human meat? Cockroaches? It would seem that in any real scientific study, a mention of what he was cooking would be standard relevant information.

[WingNot]

I wear that same apron.

I figured you for at least a C cup.