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FDA reports over 50 PFAS ingredients intentionally added to 1,700 personal care products
News
15 Jan 2026 | EWG
The FDA did flag one PFAS chemical, perfluorohexylethyl triethoxysilane, as a potential safety concern in body lotion when used at the highest reported concentration, based on an animal study showing nervous system impacts.
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FDA’s Assessment and Report on the Use of PFAS in Cosmetic Products
Policy
29 Dec 2025
The FDA’s assessment underscores significant data gaps for PFAS used in cosmetic products, including limited data on use level, lack of dermal and oral absorption data, and mechanistic information, as well as the absence of dermal toxicity data.
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Latest FDA total diet study testing finds PFAS in 7 percent of samples
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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.
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Evaluating environmental health communication: The readability of factsheets about per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
Science
20 Oct 2025 | Int. J. Hyg. Environ. Health.
Most PFAS factsheets published by government agencies are written at a college reading level, use too much complex language, and rarely include visuals or clear summaries, making them hard for the public to understand and showing the need for simpler wording, better design, and use of communication tools to improve readability.
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PFAS in Medical Devices
Policy
11 Aug 2025
The ECRI review found no conclusive evidence of patient health issues associated with PTFE as a material.
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FDA Testing Finds Bottled Water Samples Do Not Exceed EPA Limits for PFAS in Drinking Water
News
22 Apr 2025 | Food Safety Magazine
The U.S. FDA has shared results from a sampling and testing assignment of bottled waters for PFAS, in which no samples were found to have levels of “forever chemicals” that would exceed maximum contaminant levels for public drinking water recently set by the U.S. EPA.
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[Constituent Update] FDA Adds Firms to Import Alert Due to PFAS in Clams
Policy
18 Feb 2025
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has added eight firms to FDA Import Alert 99-48, Detention without Physical Examination of Foods Due to Chemical Contamination, to prevent future entry of shipments into the U.S. of processed clams due to contamination with PFAS.
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FDA must set limits on PFAS in food, lawsuit says
Policy
31 Jan 2025
US regulators are failing to address concerns about toxic PFAS chemicals in foods despite having the scientific tools to do so, according to a lawsuit filed by an environmental group in Tucson, Arizona.
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FDA Announces Food Contact Notifications for 35 PFAS are No Longer Effective
Policy
6 Jan 2025
As of January 6, 2025, the U.S. FDA has announced that the food contact notifications for 35 PFAS are no longer effective, due to the abandonment of their uses by industry.
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FDA Shares Testing Results for PFAS in Clams
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19 Dec 2024 | The National Law Review
On December 18, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shared its latest test results for PFAS in clams as follow up to its findings in the 2022 PFAS in seafood survey.
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FDA investigating ‘forever chemicals’ in seafood
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21 Nov 2024 | The Hill
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will be investigating the presence of ‘forever chemicals’ in seafood, with the goal of understanding how such contamination contributes to dietary exposures and public health.
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The FDA Issues Request for Information on PFAS in Seafood
Policy
19 Nov 2024
The FDA is seeking scientific data and information from the seafood industry, academia, state and federal agencies, as well as other interested entities, on PFAS concentrations in seafood, the surrounding environment, and processing water, as well as mitigation strategies for reducing exposure to PFAS in seafood.
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[Agency Communication] Questions and Answers on PFAS in Food
Policy
26 Jun 2024
A Q&A on the impact of PFAS in food according to the Federal Food and Drug Administration.
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[Public Comment] Filing of Food Additive Petition From Environmental Defense Fund
Policy
6 May 2024
The Food and Drug Administration is announcing that it has filed a food additive petition, submitted by Environmental Defense Fund et al., proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to remove fluorinated polyethylene.
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FDA Announces End of PFAS Use in US Food Packaging
News
21 Mar 2024 | The National Law Review
The FDA stated that the completion of this phase-out “eliminates the primary source of dietary exposure to PFAS from authorized food contact uses.”