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Boston bans artificial turf in parks due to toxic ‘forever chemicals’
News
30 Sep 2022 | The Guardian
The city joins a growing number across the US in limiting the use of artificial turf made with dangerous PFAS compounds.
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Forever chemicals: They’re in your drinking water and likely your food
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30 Sep 2022 | Chicago Tribune
Something as simple as drinking tap water is exposing millions of Illinoisans to toxic chemicals that build up in human blood, cause cancer and other diseases and take years to leave the body.
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Targeted and Suspect Screening of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Cosmetics and Personal Care Products
Science
30 Sep 2022 | Environ Sci Technol
Cosmetics and personal care products were found to contain a breadth of PFAS at extremely high levels, including in products without listed fluorinated ingredients, leading to human and environmental exposure.
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[Press Release] CA Gets Tougher On PFAS Chemicals Under Ting Bill Signed By The Governor
Policy
29 Sep 2022
The Golden State continues to crack down on the use of PFAS, chemicals that put our health and the environment at risk. Governor Newsom tonight signed AB 1817 by Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), which bans the use of these harmful substances in fabrics by 2025.
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Companies leaving Michigan with PFAS will ‘pay the price’ AG says in new lawsuit
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29 Sep 2022 | MLive
Companies leaving Michigan with PFAS will ‘pay the price’ AG says in new lawsuit companies leaving michigan with pfas will pay the price ag says in new lawsuit Thursday 29 September 2022 MLive Lindsay Moore US, Michigan PFAS, Manufacturing
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Why getting PFAS out of our products is so hard – and why it matters
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29 Sep 2022 | PBS
It’s not going to be straightforward or swift to eliminate these substances from countless industries, even though they have been potentially linked to myriad health issues.
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[Blog] PFAS Are Still Forever (and Not Your Best Friend)
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29 Sep 2022 | NRDC
Unfortunately most of these headlines were misleading on the imminence of solutions to the PFAS crisis and reflect misconceptions or misunderstandings of the technology and its status.
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Association between prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and anogenital distance in female neonates
Science
28 Sep 2022 | Ecotoxicol Environ Saf
High maternal concentrations of PFAS were associated with abnormalities in female neonates, indicating that PFAS may impair reproductive development in female offspring in early life.
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Eurofins Sacramento, in Collaboration with SCIEX USA, Achieves the Lowest Detection Limits for PFAS in Drinking Water
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27 Sep 2022 | Business Wire
Eurofins Sacramento, part of the Eurofins network of companies in the US, in collaboration with SCIEX USA, successfully achieved the analytical challenge of detecting the 2022 interim Health Advisory Levels of 4ppq for PFOA and 20ppq for PFOS, as established by the US EPA.
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Pentagon Shift to PFAS-Free Foam Spurring ‘Tidal Wave’ of Change
Policy
26 Sep 2022
Decades later, the former Air Force firefighter has diabetes, elevated cholesterol, and higher-than-average PFAS chemicals in his blood. And the Pentagon knows the PFAS-based foam he worked with had a noxious side
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Evaluation of iodide chemical ionization mass spectrometry for gas and aerosol-phase per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) analysis
Science
26 Sep 2022 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
A real-time method was developed to detect PFAS in the atmosphere in both the gas- and aerosol-phases, notably PFSAs and diPAPs.
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States Take on PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ With Bans, Lawsuits
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26 Sep 2022 | Pew
While states await regulations from the federal Environmental Protection Agency, rising awareness in recent years has prompted more than two dozen states to take the initiative to protect their residents’ health, in many cases through bipartisan legislation.
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Transdermal absorption of C-perfluorooctanoic acid (C-PFOA) from a sunscreen in a male volunteer - What could be the contribution of cosmetics to the internal exposure of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)?
Science
26 Sep 2022 | Environ Int
Using sunscreen containing PFOA resulted in an increase of a volunteer’s PFOA blood levels by about 10%.
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How birds of prey are exposing a toxic time bomb
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25 Sep 2022 | The Guardian
Researchers are finding chemicals that have not been fully tested for their environmental impact in eagles, owls and falcons – a sign of widespread, persistent pollution.
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US Senate approves HFC treaty
Policy
23 Sep 2022
The Senate voted 69–27 on Sept. 21 to allow the US to join an international treaty to curb the production and use of hydrofluorocarbons.