I think what you are asking for is generally the status quo actually. Industry does not generally choose ingredients so casually without any study at all. And regulators generally require prospective studies on possible harmful effects to people and environments before new compounds can be introduced to products people use all the time. That is most of what the FDA and EPA are up to.
The problem is, people can be wrong. Scientists have bias too. Sometimes people see trends in data not because it's valid but because that's what they were consciously or sub-consciously hoping to find. Even on review of the work by industry and regulatory panels, people still make mistakes. Products still sometimes have effects no one knew about or intended. On top of that, everything is lethal in sufficient quantities. Even water will kill you through electrolyte depletion if you drink enough a once.
My point is just that science is hard, studies are deliberately narrow and careful to try and add one tiny little fact to the pile of all human knowledge. And even then, most early findings turn out to be wrong in various ways or get refined in a way that makes excited reactions later seem overblown. It takes a long time to prove anything like the broad statements we tend to find in sensationalized news coverage. So while caution is fine, immediately assuming that one small study just recently published, yet to be replicated successfully, using a methodology that leaves a huge number of variables open to question between the lab environment and the real world use cases, is just not something to get too excited about.
Maybe the companies that work on rinse aids will want to follow up this line of research and answer some of those questions...but let's be honest, if you're already assuming the product is harmful based sensationalized news, are any follow up papers funded by the interested parties really going to change your mind? Are you even going to look for those papers six months to a year after you toss out your rise aid and demand your favorite restaurants do the same?
If you want to find the studies you would like industry to be doing, I'm sure they are available. Most of the scientific studies out there have something to do with testing products that exist or finding new things to make into new products.
It's just that most studies of anything at all are not terribly sensational. Like, how boring a headline is "dish soap company finds new detergent compound that binds to grease 2% better than the most commonly used compound, no immediately obvious side-effects, more study needed for FDA approval"?
The problem is, people can be wrong. Scientists have bias too. Sometimes people see trends in data not because it's valid but because that's what they were consciously or sub-consciously hoping to find. Even on review of the work by industry and regulatory panels, people still make mistakes. Products still sometimes have effects no one knew about or intended. On top of that, everything is lethal in sufficient quantities. Even water will kill you through electrolyte depletion if you drink enough a once.
My point is just that science is hard, studies are deliberately narrow and careful to try and add one tiny little fact to the pile of all human knowledge. And even then, most early findings turn out to be wrong in various ways or get refined in a way that makes excited reactions later seem overblown. It takes a long time to prove anything like the broad statements we tend to find in sensationalized news coverage. So while caution is fine, immediately assuming that one small study just recently published, yet to be replicated successfully, using a methodology that leaves a huge number of variables open to question between the lab environment and the real world use cases, is just not something to get too excited about.
Maybe the companies that work on rinse aids will want to follow up this line of research and answer some of those questions...but let's be honest, if you're already assuming the product is harmful based sensationalized news, are any follow up papers funded by the interested parties really going to change your mind? Are you even going to look for those papers six months to a year after you toss out your rise aid and demand your favorite restaurants do the same?
If you want to find the studies you would like industry to be doing, I'm sure they are available. Most of the scientific studies out there have something to do with testing products that exist or finding new things to make into new products.
It's just that most studies of anything at all are not terribly sensational. Like, how boring a headline is "dish soap company finds new detergent compound that binds to grease 2% better than the most commonly used compound, no immediately obvious side-effects, more study needed for FDA approval"?