How to define PFAS
1 Jul 2022 | C&EN
The US EPA’s approach to this category of chemicals is narrower than an international one.
‘It’s scary as hell’ — PFAS exposure a ‘widespread’ problem for troops, families nationwide
30 Jun 2022 | Military Times
Some of the highest concentrations of PFAS chemicals in the country have been found at and around military bases, in large part because of the military’s longtime reliance on the firefighting foam AFFF — PFAS are active ingredients.
European teenagers are high – on PFAS
30 Jun 2022 | ChemSec
Teenagers in Europe have high levels of PFAS in their blood, especially Swedish, French and Norwegian ones, an EU human biomonitoring study shows.
Baltimore’s water system contains PFAS chemicals at levels above new EPA health advisory
24 Jun 2022 | The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore’s water system, which serves 1.8 million homes and businesses in the city and Baltimore County, contains measurable levels of so-called ‘forever chemicals’ that the federal Environmental Protection Agency said last week pose health risks even at minute levels.
New York Supreme Court rejects 3M's challenge to PFAS MCL
23 Jun 2022 | Water World
3M has failed in its attempt to invalidate New York’s maximum contamination levels for PFAS.
PFAS 'forever chemicals' are everywhere. Here's what you should know about them
23 Jun 2022 | NPR
Last week, the EPA put out a new advisory warning that even tiny amounts of some of PFAS chemicals found in drinking water may pose risks.
‘Forever chemicals’ linked to high blood pressure in women
20 Jun 2022 | The Washington Post
Now, researchers have linked PFAS to high blood pressure in middle-aged women, adding to the long list of health risks associated with the pollutants.
‘Forever chemicals’ linked to high blood pressure in women
20 Jun 2022 | The Washington Post
Researchers have linked PFAS to high blood pressure in middle-aged women, adding to the long list of health risks associated with the pollutants.
New PFAS Warnings Put Utility Reputations at Risk, Not Liability
17 Jun 2022 | Bloomberg Law
Water utilities are likely to face public relations difficulties following the EPA’s announcement of PFAS-related health advisories this week, water attorneys say, even if legal challenges are less of a concern.
A federal loophole has left Maine in the dark on manufacturers’ PFAS waste
17 Jun 2022 | Maine Radio
The public was supposed to learn for the first time last year which Maine manufacturers are using PFAS and discharging the chemicals as waste, but a federal loophole has apparently allowed the facilities to evade reporting the information, fomenting anger about a federal inability to provide basic information related to a public health threat.
Pesticides Are Spreading Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals,’ Scientists Warn
15 Jun 2022 | Scientific American
Nearly 70 percent of all pesticides introduced into the global market from 2015 to 2020 contained PFAS chemicals or related compounds,
Forever chemicals linked to hypertension in middle-aged women
13 Jun 2022 | American Heart Association
Middle-aged women with higher blood concentrations of common synthetic chemicals called PFAS, also called ‘forever chemicals’ and found in water, soil, air and food, were at greater risk of developing high blood pressure, compared to their peers.
EPA issues first test order under National Testing Strategy for PFAS in commercial fire fighting foam and other uses
10 Jun 2022 | EPA
Today, as a part of the U.S. EPA's PFAS Strategic Roadmap, the agency issued the first in a series of Toxic Substances Control Act test orders to require companies to conduct and submit testing on PFAS.
3M’s ‘Forever Chemicals’ Crisis Has Come to Europe
9 Jun 2022 | Bloomberg
Then she tested herself. She had about 300 micrograms of PFOS per liter in her blood, more than 60 times the level recommended as safe today by the European Union.
Toxic PFAS, the “everywhere chemicals,” are in organic pasta sauce and ketchup, drugs, pesticides, and foodware
8 Jun 2022 | Sierra
Organic pasta sauce and ketchup, common medicines and drugs such as Flonase nasal spray, Prozac, and Cipro, and even the basic packaging in which our foods are wrapped were found to be contaminated with a toxic class of chemicals known as PFAS.