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[Press Release] Wendy’s announces ban on toxic chemicals in food packaging
News
28 Apr 2021 | Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families
Company will eliminate PFAS in consumer-facing packaging in the U.S. and Canada by the end of 2021—a faster timeline than competitor McDonald’s.
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Canada: Notice of intent to address the broad class of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances
Policy
27 Apr 2021
Stakeholders and interested parties will have opportunities to provide input to help inform Government of Canada activities related to addressing PFAS as a class. As a first step, stakeholders are invited to provide initial feedback on the intent to address PFAS as a class, including any challenges or opportunities they foresee.
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Trends (2005–2016) of perfluoroalkyl acids in top predator fish of the Laurentian Great Lakes
Science
16 Mar 2021 | Sci. Total Environ.
Shoreline development and biosolids amendment likely cause PFAA persistence in fish.
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Solvay impedes research into unknown PFAS by threatening testing lab with legal action
News
10 Feb 2021 | Consumer Reports
A Canadian laboratory can no longer sell a crucial product that independent researchers rely upon to test and analyze whether a particular PFAS chemical is present in soil or water.
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Suspect and Nontarget Screening Revealed Class-Specific Temporal Trends (2000-2017) of Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances in St. Lawrence Beluga Whales
Science
20 Jan 2021 | Environ Sci Technol
Short-chain PFAS were found in beluga whales which indicates that the continuous emissions of unregulated PFAS into the environment.
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Organic contaminants of emerging concern in leachate of historic municipal landfills
Science
19 Jan 2021 | Env. Poll.
PFAS are present in 60-year-old landfill at levels comparable to the present day.
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'Forever chemicals' can have far-reaching consequences, need more regulation in Canada, scientists say
News
7 Nov 2020 | CBC Radio Canada
Unlike pesticides or pharmaceutical drugs, a significant portion of the more than 6,300 different types of PFAS on the market have little to no data on their use, toxicity and chemical structure and are not currently regulated or restricted in Canada. Also, a restriction or a ban of a specific substance does not automatically mean that its replacements do not pose similar or other harm.
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Perfluoroalkyl acids in pregnant women from Nunavik (Quebec, Canada): Trends in exposure and associations with country foods consumption
Science
20 Oct 2020 | Environ Int
The exposure of pregnant women to long-chain PFAAs (PFNA, PFDA, and PFUdA) increased from 2004 to 2017, potentially through a diet high in fish.
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Perfluoroalkyl acids and sulfonamides and dietary, biological and ecological associations in peregrine falcons from the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin, Canada
Science
9 Sep 2020 | Environ. Res.
The study's findings highlighted the importance of integrating dietary, biological, and ecological factors when studying PFAS exposure in birds.
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The impact of risk management measures on the concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in source and treated drinking waters in Ontario, Canada
Science
25 Aug 2020 | Sci. Total Environ.
Risk management measures designed to restrict the pollution of PFAS were found to reduce the contamination in Canadian drinking water significantly.
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[Webinar] PFAS "the Forever Chemicals" Contamination in the Great Lakes Basin – A Strategic Discussion on Further Steps Around Binational Citizen Action
Events
22 Jun 2020
Bi-national work in the Great Lakes Basin has achieved benefits in the past and this interactive webinar will explore the opportunities to work bi-nationally to protect the Great Lakes from PFAS Contamination.
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Association of perfluoroalkyl substances with gestational hypertension and preeclampsia in the MIREC study.
Science
19 May 2020 | Environ Int
Higher levels of PFHxS were associated with the development of preeclampsia during pregnancy.
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Ozone layer: Concern grows over threat from replacement chemicals
News
14 May 2020 | BBC News
Canadian researchers, studying ice samples from the Arctic dating back to the 1990s, have found "dramatically" increasing levels of ozone replacements called short chain perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (scPFCAs).
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Wastewater Treatment Lagoons: Local Pathways of Perfluoroalkyl Acids and Brominated Flame Retardants to the Arctic Environment
Science
5 May 2020 | ES&T
Mass loadings to the Arctic of Canada via wastewater treatment plant effluent were estimated as 1,405 g/year for ΣPFAA.
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A focus on Canadian guidelines and guidance for contaminated sites management
Policy
1 Apr 2020
In this report, the Canadian government outlines PFAS-related programs and how they inform the development of additional environmental quality guidelines and advance contaminated site risk management.