‘Forever Chemicals’ Ban Could Impact Millions of Americans

By Jess Thomson | Newsweek | July 10, 2024

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“Pennsylvania has proposed a ban on the use of ‘forever chemicals’ in a variety of products.

The proposed House Bill 2238, which has not yet been passed, hopes to outlaw the use of PFAS chemicals in cleaning products, carpets, cookware, cosmetics, dental floss, food packaging, infant and children’s products, menstrual products, and textiles, among others, by 2027.

‘It is literally in just about every consumer product that we use and as a result of that 95 percent of us in the United States actually have some trace level of PFAS in our system,’ said state Rep. Josh Siegel, (D)-District 22, local news WFMZ 69 News reports.”…

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