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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
Loophole Lets Toxic Trojan Horse Chemicals Into Everyday Products
16 Mar 2025 | Forbes
The findings also have broader implications for other polymers used in consumer goods, such as PFAS polymers. Other studies have shown that PFAS polymers release smaller toxic PFAS molecules over time.
Forever chemical well testing expands to six counties near Chemours’ Fayetteville plant
15 Mar 2025 | City View
Well water contamination suspected in Hoke and Harnett Counties for the first time. Residents also warned about eating homegrown produce near Fayetteville plant with known PFAS water contamination.
6 Philadelphia-area water providers fail to meet Pa. PFAS regulations
13 Mar 2025 | WHYY
The Pennsylvania water systems that currently don’t comply with the state’s regulations are required to inform their customers and take corrective measures.
Experts warn 100million Americans' tap water laced with PFAS... is your neighborhood at risk?
13 Mar 2025 | Daily Mail
Researchers at the USGS — a federal agency that studies natural hazards — said a quarter of the country relies on groundwater wells that are contaminated with PFAS.
FCCmigex database receives update
12 Mar 2025 | Food Packaging Forum
The Food Packaging Forum’s database on migrating and extractable food contact chemicals identified 1,060 new chemicals present in or migrating from food packaging and other food contact articles. 62 new PFAS have been added.
Latest Science
Ten years of PFOS and PFOA human biomonitoring in Italy: Exposure levels and determinants of exposure
14 Mar 2025 | Chemosphere
PFAS exposure in the Italian population has declined over ten years for PFOA but not for PFOS, with higher levels observed in men, individuals in urbanized areas, and those with higher education or occupational skill levels, while proximity to PFAS-emitting industries remains the strongest predictor of elevated exposure.
Degree of food processing and serum poly- and perfluoroalkyl substance concentrations in the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2003-2018.
10 Mar 2025 | Int J Hyg Environ Health
PFOA levels were associated with higher intake of processed and lower intake of unprocessed/minimally processed foods, suggesting that food contact materials, rather than the foods themselves, might be an important source of exposure to PFOA.
Prenatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and blood pressure trajectories in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study
8 Mar 2025 | Int J Hyg Environ Health
Higher prenatal exposure to PFAS is associated with increased blood pressure during pregnancy, even among women without hypertension, suggesting that these chemicals may contribute to adverse maternal and child health outcomes.
Release of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances from municipal and construction and demolition waste landfills and wastewater treatment plants in North Carolina
6 Mar 2025 | ACS ES&T Water
The presence of fluoroethers in the leachate from various landfills, as well as in wastewater treatment plants, illustrates that the impact of a fluorochemical plant and fluoropolymer production extends beyond the polymer manufacturing facility.
Differences in serum concentrations of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances by occupation among firefighters, other first responders, healthcare workers, and other essential workers in Arizona, 2020-2023
6 Mar 2025 | J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol
Firefighters and healthcare workers in Arizona had higher levels of certain PFAS chemicals in their blood compared to other essential workers, suggesting occupational exposure risks that may require further investigation and protective measures.
Latest Policy
EPA PFAS Reporting Deadline Extended
14 Mar 2025
In response to President Trump’s memo titled “Regulatory Freeze Pending Review,” the EPA delayed until March 21, 2025, the effective date of a January 2025 regulation adding nine PFAS to the Toxics Release Inventory.
Canada will add PFAS, which are linked to cancer and other health problems, to toxic substances list
10 Mar 2025
Move does not ban PFAS, but starts a process to restrict them in various consumer and industrial products.
Supreme Court sends PFAS rules case between state, 3M back to lower court
7 Mar 2025
The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday ordered a lower court to reconsider a case governing the future of Michigan regulations that seek to crack down on so-called "forever chemicals" in water supplies.
House unanimously supports classifying PFAS as hazardous substance
6 Mar 2025
The New Mexico House of Representatives unanimously passed House Bill 140, which would amend the Hazardous Waste Act in order to help the state ensure PFAS contamination near military bases is cleaned up.
House bill proposes delay in PFAS ban for some ATVs, other sport vehicles
4 Mar 2025
In fact, that deadline has already come about, and since Jan. 1, 2025, it’s been illegal in Minnesota to sell PFAS-containing juvenile products that are designed or marketed for use by infants and children under age 12. Rep. Josh Heintzeman (R-Nisswa) says that tight timeline did not give manufacturers enough time to find replacements for these products.
Opportunities
International Conference “PFAS In Soil – Forever Pollution, Forever Concern?”
Event: 25 Mar 2025
The conference will provide an exchange platform for scientists, (political) decision-makers, representatives of authorities as well as experts dealing with PFAS emissions and contamination.
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