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Water regulator applies stricter PFAS limits to drinking water in England and Wales
Policy
7 Nov 2024
The Drinking Water Inspectorate is set to apply more stringent restrictions on the levels of PFAS allowed in drinking water in England and Wales.
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Insights into PFAS contaminants before and after sewage discharges into a marine protected harbour
Science
21 Oct 2024 | Chemosphere
Untreated wastewater discharges in the UK are causing elevated levels of harmful PFAS chemicals in protected marine areas, with significant contamination found in water, seaweed, and oysters, underscoring the need for better wastewater management and a deeper understanding of PFAS impacts on marine ecosystems.
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‘Chronic threat’ of PFAS firefighting foams raised in 2003 secret UK report
Policy
11 Sep 2024
The Environment Agency was warned about the “chronic threat” that firefighting foams containing PFAS “forever chemicals” pose to the environment in 2003, 20 years before it started the process of regulating the chemicals, it can be revealed.
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Landfills across England could be leaking harmful toxic ooze, warn experts
News
28 Jun 2024 | The Guardian
More than 21,000 old sites may be releasing ‘forever chemicals’ into land often left as open space.
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North Yorkshire town has UK’s highest concentration of ‘forever chemicals’
News
28 May 2024 | The Guardian
The market town of Bentham, which is home to 3,000 people and set on the banks of the River Wenning, is also home to the Angus International Safety Group – locally known as Angus Fire – which, since the 1970s, has been producing firefighting foams containing PFAS at a factory near the town centre.
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In utero exposures to perfluoroalkyl substances and the human fetal liver metabolome in Scotland: a cross-sectional study
Science
29 Jan 2024 | Lancet Planet. Health
Exposure to PFAS during pregnancy is linked to metabolic changes in the human fetal liver, suggesting early manifestation of potential consequences, as evidenced by a study analyzing metabolites, bile acids, and RNA-Seq data from fetal livers collected between 2004 and 2014.
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Scientists call on ministers to cut limits for ‘forever chemicals’ in UK tap water
News
18 Oct 2023 | The Guardian
Acceptable levels of “forever chemicals” in drinking water should be reduced tenfold and a new national chemicals agency created to protect public health, the Royal Society of Chemistry has told the UK government.
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Revealed: The fish packed with cancer-causing ‘forever chemicals’
News
11 Mar 2023 | Independent
Testing of “forever chemicals” in England’s wild fish has found high levels of an industrial pollutant that if eaten more than twice a year would exceed recommended EU safety guidelines.
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Levels of pollutant in UK fish so high eating it twice a year exceeds safe level
News
9 Mar 2023 | Hull Live
Testing of “forever chemicals” in England’s wild fish has found high levels of an industrial pollutant that if eaten more than twice a year would exceed recommended EU safety guidelines.
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‘Forever chemicals’ mean England’s waters will miss pollution targets for decades
News
24 Feb 2023 | The Guardian
The government is investigating and mapping out the sources of dangerous ‘forever chemicals’ present in our waterways.
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Revealed: scale of ‘forever chemical’ pollution across UK and Europe
News
23 Feb 2023 | The Guardian
Pollutants known as “forever chemicals”, which don’t break down in the environment, build up in the body and may be toxic, have been found at high levels at thousands of sites across the UK and Europe, a major mapping project has revealed.
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'Forever chemicals' still in use in UK make-up
News
13 Jan 2023 | BBC
Major beauty brands Urban Decay, Revolution and Inglot are selling make-up in the UK containing "forever chemicals", BBC News has found.
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UK's safe level for tap water too high - scientists
Policy
18 Mar 2022
Scientists are concerned that the allowable levels of toxic PFAS - known as "forever chemicals" - in UK drinking water are too high.
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Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in British otters
News
25 Jan 2022 | Phys.org
The study found higher concentrations of PFAS in otters close to wastewater treatment works, suggesting domestic and industrial wastewater was an important source.
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Anthropogenic Drivers of Variation in Concentrations of Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Otters () from England and Wales.
Science
17 Jan 2022 | Environ Sci Technol
PFAS concentrations in otters were positively associated with effluent from wastewater treatment plants, agriculture, and a fluoropolymer production facility.