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PFAS in Medical Devices
Policy
11 Aug 2025
The ECRI review found no conclusive evidence of patient health issues associated with PTFE as a material.
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PFAS contamination and its rising toll on food security: A hidden global threat
Science
11 Aug 2025 | Food Control
Widespread PFAS contamination from industrial, agricultural, and packaging sources has been found to accumulate in global food systems, compromising food safety, disrupting ecosystems, and posing significant long-term health risks.
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Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances on the surface of children's feeding smocks: High-throughput characterization and implications for exposure assessment
Science
11 Aug 2025
Elevated PFAS levels were detected on Chinese children’s feeding smocks, making routine hand-to-mouth contact during use a potential exposure at levels on par with everyday exposure from indoor dust and air.
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Multi-site study of communities with PFAS-contaminated drinking water: Methods, demographics, and PFAS serum concentrations
Science
11 Aug 2025 | Environ. Int.
In eight PFAS-affected U.S. communities, blood tests of 5,826 adults and 710 children from 2019 to 2023 found higher PFHxS and PFOA in adults and higher PFHxS only in children.
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Sunlight-Activated Material Turns PFAS Pollutants Into Fluoride
News
8 Aug 2025 | Technology Networks
The discovery could be a promising low-energy solution for PFAS remediation in water treatment and environmental cleanup.
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Groundbreaking $2 Billion Environmental Settlement Makes History and Holds Polluters Accountable for Contamination in New Jersey
News
8 Aug 2025 | The National Law Review
Monday, August 4, the State of New Jersey announced a landmark settlement with DuPont and related companies (“DuPont Defendants”) valued at more than $2 billion, the largest environmental recovery for a single State – and one of the top-20 largest settlements of any kind – in U.S. history.
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Breaking the bonds of PFAS: Airport launches new removal effort
News
8 Aug 2025 | The Inquirer and Mirror
Nantucket Memorial Airport will soon be on the front lines of testing a new system called HALT, which claims to break down and destroy a wide range of PFAS compounds in water– rendering them inert – using high heat, pressure and a chemical compound like sodium hydroxide.
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Legacy and novel per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in tap water from East China: Impact from water sources and risk mitigation by household purifiers
Science
5 Aug 2025 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
While some home water purifiers removed a portion of PFAS from tap water, none eliminated them completely, and removal efficiency varied widely depending on the device type and specific PFAS compound.
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Thermal decomposition of organic components in spent lithium-ion batteries: Stagewise evaluation and kinetic analysis
Science
5 Aug 2025 | Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.
In spent lithium-ion battery recycling, adding oxygen during heat treatment breaks down PVDF more completely around 550 °C with much less energy, leaving far fewer PFAS-like fluorinated residues than inert-gas pyrolysis.
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Unveiling novel and legacy PFAS in human hair
Science
5 Aug 2025 | Environ Int
All hair samples from German volunteers were found to contain PFAS, including NTf2, with younger people generally having higher total levels.
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3M timeline of toxicity: What the company knew about PFAS
News
4 Aug 2025 | Fox 9
The FOX 9 Investigators reviewed hundreds of hours of video depositions that shed new light on how company executives and scientists responded after first learning about the widespread contaminations.
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Seamounts create local hotspots of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the oligotrophic open ocean
Science
4 Aug 2025 | Progress in Oceanography
Scientists discovered that waters above Pacific seamounts hold per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances at concentrations about 40 % higher than nearby open ocean, with the mid-depth mesopelagic layer especially rich in newer short-chain PFAS, showing these undersea mountains act as unexpected hotspots.
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Peoria anticipates over $800K payout from 3M by year's end
News
1 Aug 2025 | 12 News
This West Valley city isn't the only community receiving settlement funds from the chemical manufacturer.
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Military bases flagged for high PFAS while EPA status remains unchanged
News
1 Aug 2025 | WRAL News
The EPA still labels Cherry Point “under control,” yet 2023 tests show PFAS at 12× legal limit.
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Port of Kennewick temporarily halts Vista Field property sales amid PFAS detection
News
31 Jul 2025 | KEPR
The Port of Kennewick is temporarily pausing property sales at Vista Field amid PFAS being detected in the region.