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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.
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Analysis of legacy PFAS and potential precursors in curtain, sofa, and carpet fabric samples
Science
2 Jul 2025 | Sci Total Environ
A European survey of 30 carpets, curtains, and sofa fabrics collected in 2023 found that household textiles can carry unexpectedly high levels of PFAS, often dominated by newer short-chain compounds, confirming these everyday items as a notable indoor source of PFAS exposure.
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‘Even if we stop drinking we will be exposed’: Parts of France have banned tap water. Is it a warning for the rest of Europe?
News
1 Jul 2025 | The Guardian
Forever chemicals have polluted the water supply of 60,000 people, threatening human health, wildlife and the wider ecosystem. But activists say this is just the tip of the PFAS iceberg.
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Scientists discover protection from PFAS chemicals
News
1 Jul 2025 | BBC
A University of Cambridge study found a certain species of microbe found in the human gut could absorb various PFAS molecules and lessen its harmful effects.
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High levels of PFAS found in Great Bay foam prompts advisory to avoid contact
News
1 Jul 2025 | News Center Maine
Results from samples taken from Great Bay showed PFAS levels in the foam were up to 70 times higher than those in the water just beneath it.
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She fought to ban PFAS while dying of cancer. Now Minnesota has the nation's strictest law.
News
1 Jul 2025 | CBS
Starting this year, it's America's strictest state law policing PFAS, compounds known as "forever chemicals."