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Short-chain PFAS predominate in large-scale lithium battery industrial parks, Eastern China: Source apportionment and downstream impact implications
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25 Sep 2025 | J. Hazard. Mater.
Lithium battery industrial parks in eastern China release significant amounts of short-chain PFAS into rivers, with urban wastewater, traditional industries, and the battery industry each contributing about one-third of the pollution, leading to ecological risks, in downstream ecosystems.
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[Factsheet] PFAS sampling activities in the US Geological Survey national networks
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19 Sep 2025 | USGS
The U.S. Geological Survey is monitoring PFAS nationwide by sampling 23 rivers up to 22 times a year, collecting over 1,200 groundwater samples from wells since 2019, and measuring PFAS in rainfall at atmospheric deposition sites to track how these long-lasting chemicals move through water, air, and soil.
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NASDA Endorses Federal Recommendations to Address PFAS Contamination of Farmland
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18 Sep 2025 | Food Safety Magazine
At their 2025, Annual Meeting the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture’s (NASDA’s) outlined five recommendations on how the US federal government should address PFAS contamination of agricultural land.
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‘You’re poisoning my child’: How Mamme No PFAS helped expose Italy’s PFAS pollution scandal
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13 Sep 2025 | Euro News
They are Mamme No PFAS (Mums No PFAS), a group of mothers protesting PFAS contamination in Italy. They are among the most influential activists in Europe’s fight against these ‘forever chemicals’.
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Investigation of anthropogenic and emerging contaminants in sinkholes (cenotes) of the Great Mayan Aquifer, Yucatán Peninsula
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9 Sep 2025 | Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol.
PFAS chemicals, including PFOS, were found in most cenotes in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, with some levels exceeding U.S. drinking water safety limits, raising concerns for both water quality and public health.
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A Maine compost operation heavily contaminated by PFAS is closing
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8 Sep 2025 | Bangor Daily News
Casella Waste Systems is closing its Hawk Ridge Compost Facility in Unity Township after Maine regulators discovered high levels of forever chemicals on the site and indications that the contamination may have spread to the land around it.
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Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in agriculture and its potential conflict with circular economy
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8 Sep 2025 | Environmental Pollution
Efforts to promote a circular economy in agriculture, such as reusing biosolids and treated wastewater, risk reintroducing PFAS into soils and food chains, highlighting the need for stricter controls and safer alternatives.
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EPA Approves Four New Pesticides That Qualify as PFAS
Policy
8 Sep 2025
Despite MAHA promises to reduce chemical exposures, experts warn the Trump administration is approving a wave of ‘frightening’ pesticides.
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Exploring the distribution of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in surface water and wildlife from the Galápagos Islands
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8 Sep 2025 | Reg. Stud. Mar. Sci.
PFAS were found to reach the Galápagos Islands, contaminating surface waters and building up in wildlife such as marine iguanas, fish, and especially sea lions, posing risks to the health of this fragile ecosystem.
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The unlikely alliance pressing Trump to regulate PFAS on US farms: ‘This is a basic human right’
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2 Sep 2025 | The Guardian
An unlikely alliance of farmers, bikers, truckers, a detective and scientists from across the political spectrum are working to pressure the Trump administration and Republican leadership to rein in the use of toxic sewage sludge as fertilizer on the nation’s farmland.
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Reliable and sensitive ultra-short chain per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) analysis in food: a polar reverse-phase chromatography approach
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2 Sep 2025 | J Chromatogr A
A new chromatography method was developed to detect ultra-short-chain PFAS in tomato products, revealing their presence in common foods and offering a reliable tool for improved food safety monitoring.
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Co-occurrence behaviors of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and heavy metals in the groundwater of dyeing industrial sites in southern China
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27 Aug 2025 | Ecotoxicol Environ Saf
Groundwater beneath long-operating dyeing industrial sites in southern China is heavily contaminated with both PFAS and toxic heavy metals, with concentrations varying by season and site, highlighting serious risks to water safety and the need for integrated pollution control.
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Detection and Quantitation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in North Carolina Sea Foam and the Corresponding Sea Water
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27 Aug 2025 | Environ Sci Technol
Sea foam along the North Carolina coast contains extremely high levels of PFAS, sometimes millions of times above drinking water limits, making it a major reservoir of these harmful chemicals and a potential risk to people and ecosystems.
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Recent advances in the detection of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in food: A review of optical sensors, electrochemical sensors, and biosensor
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25 Aug 2025 | Trends in Food Science & Technology
Nanomaterial-based optical sensors, electrochemical techniques such as voltammetry and impedance spectroscopy, and biosensors were found to be able to detect PFAS in food at trace levels from parts per million down to parts per trillion, allowing faster, portable, and more selective alternatives to chromatography and mass spectrometry.
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The landscape of PFAS contamination in the United States: sources and spatial patterns
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24 Aug 2025 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
PFAS contamination is widespread across the United States, with groundwater detections exceeding health limits at nearly all tested sites, especially around military bases, airports, and firefighting foam users, while industrial and waste facilities account for most likely sources and drive regional hotspots that raise major water safety and environmental justice concerns.