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Although useful, PFAS or highly fluorinated chemicals are associated with serious health harm and can remain in the environment forever.
Latest News
Chairman Palmer delivers opening statement at Environment Subcommittee Hearing on the current statutory and regulatory landscape of PFAS
22 Dec 2025
“In other words, a responsible party could be responsible for the entire cost to cleanup a contaminated site even if its contribution to the pollution was minimal.”
Latest FDA total diet study testing finds PFAS in 7 percent of samples
22 Dec 2025 | Food Safety Magazine
Since 2019, FDA has tested 1,352 food samples for PFAS under the TDS, 95 percent (1,290) of which had no detectable levels of PFAS. The agency tests for as many as 30 types of PFAS.
Shaw Industries invents testing methodology to detect PFAS
19 Dec 2025 | Floor Covering Weekly
“What we discovered is that drinking water testing wasn’t accurate for soaps, oils, resins and other solid materials—really anything other than drinking water. An adequate testing methodology didn’t exist, so we invented one.”
How global seafood trade is moving ‘forever chemicals’ from contaminated waters to dinner plates
19 Dec 2025 | The Independent
Fish from parts of Asia and Oceania, including Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Australia’s eastern coast, showed the highest PFAS concentrations relative to the global average, while fish from Africa and North America had the lowest.
U.S. military rejects Okinawa access requests over PFAS findings
19 Dec 2025 | The Japan Times
The reply says that inspections could be considered only if there were agreed upon environmental standards enabling both sides to properly assess sampling results and clear scientific evidence identifying U.S. facilities as the pollution source.
Latest Science
Reevaluating PFAS exposure risks from marine fish
18 Dec 2025 | Science
A global modeling analysis finds that legacy PFAS exposure from marine fish may now be low for most countries due to production phaseouts, yet remains higher in places with very high seafood intake such as Greenland and Denmark, offering important insight for refining fish consumption guidance and noting where potential risk persists.
Formation of perfluorocarboxylic acids (PFCAs) from the incomplete thermal decomposition of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA
16 Dec 2025 | ACS ES&T Air
PFOS and PFOA thermal treatment may consistently produce multiple perfluorocarboxylic acids and volatile fluorinated byproducts at suboptimal temperatures despite near-complete parent destruction, highlighting potential emissions concerns and uncertainties about the specific formation pathways.
Determination of analytical interferences for 4:2 fluorotelomer sulfonic acid in multiple agricultural matrices
16 Dec 2025 | J Agric Food Chem
Naturally occurring oxidized fatty acids in crops were found to generate the same mass-spectrometric signals as 4:2 FTS, which could lead to potentially inaccurate PFAS measurements in agricultural products and may warrant careful method evaluation before results are reported.
Childhood exposure to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in educational environments: Arising from stationery and implications for health
15 Dec 2025 | J. Environ. Chem. Ecotoxicol.
Several products purchased in China released measurable PFAS including precursors that increased after oxidation and maximum estimated intake from hand to mouth contact with some pen grips approaching the European Food Safety Authority tolerable intake for children.
Mediating role of proteomics in the association between per-and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure and blood pressure in youth
15 Dec 2025 | Environ Pollut.
PFOA, PFNA, PFOS, PFHxS, and PFHpS, exposure may be associated with higher blood pressure in youth through protein changes (particularly galectin-3) involving inflammatory and scarred tissue.
Latest Policy
[Job] Policy Advocate
1 Feb 2026
NRDC is seeking a Policy Advocate to work with the Toxics team in any of our offices, preferably San Francisco or Washington, D.C.
EU study recommends excluding refrigerants from PFAS restrictions
20 Dec 2025
“Overall, substitution is not currently feasible given economic, technical, and safety constraints,” the report states. It recommends excluding F-gases completely from the scope of a universal PFAS restriction and instead focus all regulatory control of all F-gases into the existing F-gas regulation.
Call for Input - Forever Chemicals (PFAS) & Human Rights
15 Dec 2025
The Special Rapporteur invites all stakeholders interested in issues relating to toxics, PFAS, and human rights to provide input for the preparation of his thematic report.
UN Calls for Input for Thematic Report on PFAS and Human Rights
11 Dec 2025
According to the UN, the report will identify how the adverse impacts of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), including pathways to exposure, relate to potential human rights violations."
Defense bill delays phaseout of ‘forever chemicals’ in firefighting foam
8 Dec 2025
Included in the measure is language from the House version of the bill that delays the phaseout of the use of 'forever chemical'-laden firefighting foam by two years."
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[Public Comment] EPA Seeks Comment in Effort To Loosen Decade of Forever-Chemical Reporting
Posted: 13 Nov 2025
The proposed change, announced on Monday, would loosen the reporting requirements manufacturers face when disclosing their use of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Call for Input - Forever Chemicals (PFAS) & Human Rights
Posted: 15 Dec 2025
The Special Rapporteur invites all stakeholders interested in issues relating to toxics, PFAS, and human rights to provide input for the preparation of his thematic report.
[Job] Policy Advocate
Posted: 1 Feb 2026
NRDC is seeking a Policy Advocate to work with the Toxics team in any of our offices, preferably San Francisco or Washington, D.C.
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