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Association of serum per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances exposure with leukocyte telomere length in Chinese middle-aged and older adults: Role of genetic susceptibility and healthy diet
Science
16 Jul 2025 | Environ Sci Technol
In nearly 1,500 middle-aged and older Chinese adults, higher blood levels of the PFDA and PFUDA were linked to noticeably shorter telomeres, with the greatest shrinkage in people who also carried aging-related genes and ate a low-quality diet, suggesting these chemicals may speed biological aging.
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Maine adopts more stringent standard for PFAS in drinking water
Policy
15 Jul 2025
Rep. Dan Shagoury, D-Hallowell, sponsored legislation to require Maine to match the federal standard of four parts per trillion of PFAS in drinking water. As it is now, state law allows up to 20 parts per trillion.
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Characterization and health risk assessment of chemical and microbial pollutants in particulate matter from dust prone regions
Science
14 Jul 2025 | Scientific Reports
Researchers in Sharjah, UAE, detected trace levels of PFAS in desert dust, showing that wind-blown sand can spread these persistent pollutants through the air and spotlighting inhalation as an overlooked exposure route that arid-city air-quality programs need to monitor.
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PFAS in pelagic Sargassum: A growing concern for the Mexican Caribbean coastline
Science
14 Jul 2025 | J. Hazard. Mater.
Scientists report the first evidence that the vast, floating seaweed Sargassum, is able to uptake and transport PFAS across vast distances, making the blooms both an expensive pollution vector and a potential tool for cleaning contaminated seawater.
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Toxic PFAS above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested
News
11 Jul 2025 | The Guardian
Out of 117 water bodies tested by the Environment Agency for multiple types of Pfas, 110 would fail the safety standard, according to analysis by Wildlife and Countryside Link and the Rivers Trust.
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EU ministers get their blood tested for forever chemicals
News
10 Jul 2025 | Politico
European environment ministers underwent blood testing for ‘forever chemicals’ on Thursday in a publicity exercise to highlight the alarming reach of the toxic substances.
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DEP’s Efforts to Address PFAS in the Environment
Policy
9 Jul 2025
DEP continues its efforts to investigate and understand PFAS in the environment and the ecological and human health risks associated with PFAS contamination.
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PFAS exposure, mental health, and environmental justice in the United States: Impacts on marginalized communities
Science
9 Jul 2025 | Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health
PFAS exposure was associated with increased anxiety, depression, cognitive decline, and chronic stress in marginalized communities, highlighting racial and socioeconomic disparities in contamination and mental health impacts across the U.S.
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3M is paying to clean up PFAS. But for how much longer?
News
8 Jul 2025 | KMSP
Minnesota-based 3M is required to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up PFAS-contaminated drinking water in the Twin Cities after the company dumped chemical waste in the east metro for decades.
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Smoldering treatment of PFAS: Investigation of mass balance and volumetric scale up for field implementatio
Science
8 Jul 2025 | ACS Omega
Engineers have conducted a proof-of-concept study to show that a self-sustaining “smoldering” treatment, enhanced with calcium oxide, can scale from lab columns to 10 m³ soil piles and destroy >99.9 % of PFAS while trapping the released fluorine as benign calcium fluoride, pointing to an energy-efficient, potentially field-ready solution for cleaning contaminated fire-training sites.
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Levels of serum per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and association with dyslipidemia in the Korean population
Science
7 Jul 2025 | Ecotoxicol Environ Saf
A large national study of nearly 3,000 Korean adults found widespread PFAS exposure and showed that higher serum concentrations of several compounds, especially PFOA, PFHxS, PFNA and PFDeA, were consistently associated with elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and total cholesterol, implying potential cardiovascular risk and reinforcing the need for stricter regulation.
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Association between prenatal exposure to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances and blood pressure among preschool-aged children: The moderating effect of child-age and the mediating effect of inflammatory cytokine
Science
5 Jul 2025 | Ecotoxicol Environ Saf
Tracking 215 mother-child pairs in China, researchers found that prenatal exposure to common PFAS chemicals was associated with higher diastolic blood pressure in preschoolers, and that inflammatory signals in cord blood partly explained the effect, pointing to a subtle early-life pathway by which PFAS may increase the likelihood of later heart-disease risk.
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Residents fight to hold officials accountable for water poisoning coverup: 'No one took responsibility'
News
4 Jul 2025 | The Cool Down
"What would happen if we lost? We would still be poisoned for the rest of our lives, and then have to pay for it."
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‘Forever chemicals’ in school uniforms could be banned under proposed law
Policy
3 Jul 2025
Amendments to children’s wellbeing and schools bill call for ban on PFAS and synthetic fibres over health concerns.
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Every Dutch person has ‘forever chemicals’ in their blood
News
3 Jul 2025 | Politico
Out of 28 types of PFAS analyzed, the study found that at least seven kinds are present in almost everyone tested.