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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.

• [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.

• 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.

• 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.

• FDA Shares Testing Results for PFAS in Clams

  News

  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.

• FDA investigating ‘forever chemicals’ in seafood

  News

  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. 

• 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.

• [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.

• [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.

• 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.”

• Fast-Food Wrappers That Contain PFAS Are No Longer Sold in the US, the FDA Says

  Policy

  28 Feb 2024

  Starting in 2020, the FDA obtained commitments from U.S. food manufacturers to phase out PFAS in wrappers, boxes and bags with coating to prevent grease, water and other liquids from soaking through.

• US FDA discovers PFAS in cod, shrimp, tilapia, salmon samples

  News

  1 Jun 2023 | Seafood Source

  Out of 186 samples recently tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, PFAS were discovered in two cod samples, two shrimp samples, one sample of tilapia, and one sample of salmon.

• Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Report

  Policy

  20 Mar 2023

  The NDAA for FY 2021 directs the PFAS ST to identify all currently Federally-funded PFAS research and development; to identify scientific and technological challenges that must be addressed to understand and to significantly reduce the environmental and human health impacts of PFAS.

• Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in breast milk and infant formula: A global issue

  Science

  3 Jan 2023 | Environ. Res.

  Breast milk concentrations of PFOA and PFOS often exceed children’s drinking water screening values, and limited information on infant formula means that families cannot generally know whether their infant’s exposures exceed safe levels.

• PFAS and Federal Contracting: What Contractors Should Know and Why

  News

  15 Sep 2022 | JDSurpa

  Government contractors should monitor PFAS developments both in the litigation and government acquisition space to ensure they are prepared should an issue arise.