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California legislature votes to phase out “forever chemicals” in cookware and other household items
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15 Sep 2025 | CBS News
The move has pulled in celebrity chefs on one side and environmentalists, including actor Mark Ruffalo, on the other.
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PFAS in the textile industry: Sources, fate, detection, and pathways toward sustainable remediation and regulation
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15 Sep 2025 | Chem. Eng. J.
Textiles act as long-term reservoirs for PFAS, continuously releasing harmful chemicals into the environment through production, use, aging, washing, and disposal, raising major health and regulatory concerns.
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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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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in agricultural systems: Human dietary exposure via beef raised on corn stover from a field with contaminated biosolids
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9 Sep 2025 | J Environ Qual
Cattle fed contaminated corn stover can accumulate harmful levels of PFAS in their meat and liver, creating health risks, especially for young children who eat more relative to their body weight.
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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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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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Sweat-amplified dermal transfer and combined toxicity of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and organophosphate esters mixtures in children's textiles
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8 Sep 2025 | Sci Total Environ
Sweating was found to increase the dermal transfer of PFAS and organophosphate esters from children's clothing by over 1000-fold, leading to chemical levels on the skin that exceed regulatory limits and cause measurable toxic effects in human skin cell tests.
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DNR and DHS issue new PFAS-based consumption advisory for ducks harvested on Green Bay
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4 Sep 2025 | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
This advisory from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Department of Health Services is in effect immediately, and hunters should be aware of this for the fall hunting season.
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PFAS treatment as an opportunity for broader drinking water improvements: evidence from US water systems
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4 Sep 2025 | ACS ES&T Water
PFAS treatment requirements can act as a catalyst for broader improvements in U.S. drinking water systems, especially for smaller or underserved communities, by encouraging upgrades in infrastructure, source water protection, and operator capacity.
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Unmasking per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in facemasks: Occurrence and leaching implications.
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4 Sep 2025 | J Hazard Mater
Facemasks, especially reusable cloth ones, contain low but detectable levels of PFAS that can leach into the environment under landfill-like conditions, with leaching influenced by temperature, pH, and organic matter.
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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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Prenatal exposure to a mixture of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and lung function and immune-related outcomes among males in childhood and young adulthood
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2 Sep 2025 | Environ Res
Prenatal exposure to mixtures of PFAS was linked to reduced lung capacity in young adult males and a lower chance of hay fever in childhood, but showed no clear connection with asthma or eczema.
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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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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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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.