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‘I just want to know if it has caused my cancer’: life in the shadow of Lancashire PFAS factory
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10 Jul 2026 | The Guardian
Despite the higher rates, the study in Thornton-Cleveleys found no evidence of a cancer cluster or of any environmental association for the elevated kidney cancer rates, and it is not possible to know whether one person’s cancer was caused by their exposure to PFOA.
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Pan-continental assessment of socioeconomic and environmental predictors of PFAS occurrence in European rivers from a harmonised monitoring study
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10 Jul 2026 | Water Res.
PFAS were detected at 93% of monitored European river sites, with the highest concentrations linked to landfills, wastewater and industrial activity, elevated summer levels likely caused by reduced dilution, and potential regulatory concern identified at 61% of sites.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in early life is associated with childhood intestinal inflammation: analyses of three birth cohorts
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10 Jul 2026 | Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol
Early-life exposure to mixtures containing both legacy PFAS, including PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, PFBA, PFDA, and FOSAA, and newer short-chain PFAS was associated with increased intestinal inflammation in children ages 1 to 11, suggesting a possible contribution to later inflammatory bowel disease risk.
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EPA replaces PFAS sewage sludge assessment, drawing concern over 'forever chemicals'
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8 Jul 2026 | WRAL News
"EPA hasn't concluded there's no risk," the agency told WRAL in a statement. "It has concluded the previous document's quantitative risk findings weren't reliable enough to serve as the basis for regulation."
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What you need to know about forever chemicals and how they can cause infertility in men
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19 Jun 2026 | WTOP
“Things like PFAS, which are also known as forever chemicals, phthalates and even some pesticides, can interfere with hormones and fertility and reproductive health,” Marc Boom, Senior Director of Public Affairs at the Environmental Protection Network.
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New research links prenatal exposure to PFAS to later development of PMOS
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19 Jun 2026 | The Guardian
This link to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) “is another piece that fits in that larger body of evidence of these specific harms, like hormonal disruption,” said Tasha Stoiber, a senior scientist with the Environmental Working Group non-profit who reviewed the study.
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Lactation interrupted: PFAS impact on capacity to breastfeed ignored
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13 Jun 2026 | Curr. Environ. Health Rep.
PFAS exposure may reduce breastfeeding duration by disrupting mammary gland development and lactation function, yet these impacts are often overlooked in PFAS risk assessment, regulation, and clinical guidance.
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Socioeconomic disparities in PFAS exposure and susceptibility to diabetes in Chinese adults: A nationwide cross-sectional study
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10 Jun 2026 | Environ. Health
Using serum PFAS measurements from 10,302 adults, researchers found that higher socioeconomic status was associated with significantly higher levels of several PFAS, while lower socioeconomic status was linked to significantly stronger PFAS-diabetes associations for PFUnDA, PFOS, and 6:2 CI-PFESA, highlighting socioeconomic disadvantage as a potential factor in PFAS-related health susceptibility.
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Accumulation of PFAS in wine from a contaminated area: Perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA) as a molecular marker of PFAS groundwater contamination and implications of wine ingestion for human health
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3 Jun 2026 | Environ Pollut
PFAS-contaminated groundwater can transfer into wine, with PFBA serving as a key marker of contamination, making wine both a possible indicator of local PFAS pollution and a potential dietary exposure source in heavily impacted areas.
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State announces $3 million in PFAS Fund research grants to support impacted farms
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15 May 2026 | Maine Public
The Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry is currently working with 127 sites to provide testing, financial assistance, research, and technical support to help farmers make informed decisions and continue operating safely.
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Iowa’s high cancer rate linked to nitrate, pesticides, PFAS and radon, new report finds
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25 Mar 2026 | Sentient Media
Among Iowans under age 50, six of the ten cancer types that are associated with nitrate, PFAS, radon or pesticides have been increasing.
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Early-life exposure to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances and heavy metals and lower lung function in school-age children: A prospective cohort study
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23 Mar 2026 | Environmental Research
Early-life exposure to PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFDA, and PFUnDA, measured in children’s blood alongside metals such as cadmium and mercury, was associated with reduced lung function at school age.
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Changes in the levels and predictors of per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances in maternal plasma, relative to timelines of EPA PFOA Stewardship
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18 Oct 2025 | Environ. Int.
PFOS, PFOA, PFHxS, PFHpS, and Me-PFOSA-AcOH declined over time after EPA’s PFOA Stewardship Program, but other PFAS such as PFNA, PFUnA, PFDeA, PFDoA, and GenX increased especially among non-White mothers, and higher levels were linked to eating fish/shellfish and vegetables, working, and having carpet or pets during pregnancy, showing that policies reduced some PFAS but exposure sources and inequities remain.
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Advancing the understanding of PFAS-induced reproductive toxicity in key model species
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29 Sep 2025 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
Across model species, PFAS commonly impair reproduction, in rodents they damage ovaries and testes, disrupt sex hormones, and weaken the blood-testis barrier, in fish they reveal reduced fecundity and abnormal development under chronic, environmentally relevant, transgenerational tests, and in C. elegans they cause heritable declines in fertility and locomotion.
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Study details how ‘forever chemicals’ disrupt liver function
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15 Sep 2025 | The Hill
The disruptions were also sex-specific — affecting donor liver cells of males and females in different ways, according to the research.