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High PFAS levels in Wisconsin eaglets may reduce their ability to fend off illness
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7 Jan 2026 | Wisconsin Public Radio
Samples also showed PFOS, one of the most widely studied PFAS chemicals, made up as much as 90 percent of the total PFAS. Dehnert noted fish consumption guidelines advise people not to eat fish that contain PFOS levels above 40 parts per billion.
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Federal PFAS action may slow, but not state efforts or litigation
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6 Jan 2026 | C&EN
But companies’ preparations for the Joe Biden–era rule “will not be for naught,” she adds, because states are also creating new requirements. “The tsunami of state PFAS reporting obligations shows no sign of abating.”
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France’s ban on ‘forever chemicals’ comes into force today. Here’s what will change
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6 Jan 2026 | Euro News
France’s ban prohibits the sale, production, or import of any product for which an alternative to PFAS already exists.
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[Opinion] Chemists must learn from PFAS to avoid similar mistakes
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6 Jan 2026 | C&EN
Chemists now face a reckoning over how persistence is defined, rewarded, and regulated and how lessons from PFAS are carried forward into future chemical design.
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$27M DuPont PFAS contamination class action settlement
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5 Jan 2026 | Top Class Actions
DuPont agreed to a $27 million class action lawsuit settlement to resolve claims it contaminated drinking water in Hoosick Falls, New York, with PFOA.
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Fate, bioaccumulation, and toxic responses of PFOA, PFOS, and GenX in the paddy soil-rice system across the full growth cycle
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1 Jan 2026 | J Hazard Mater
Analysis of a full growth cycle study in paddy soil suggests that PFOA, PFOS, and the replacement PFAS GenX may disrupt rice growth and induce oxidative stress. GenX is showing greater upward movement into edible tissues, highlighting potential food-chain relevance and informing proposed soil safety thresholds for rice cultivation.
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Popular Imported Fish Carry Human Health Risks, Study Reveals
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31 Dec 2025 | Newsweek
Researchers found that imported fish brought into regions with relatively low environmental pollution contained significant levels of PFAS, raising concerns about food safety worldwide.
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State officials move to ban paper straws at restaurants, citing 'concerning health risks'
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31 Dec 2025 | Fox News
Researchers found PFAS chemicals in 27 of 39 different straw variants, concluding the chemicals were most likely used as a water-repellent coating in Florida.
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Gulls foraging in highly urbanized areas experience disruption in hormones and energetic metabolism
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20 Dec 2025 | Environ Int
Urban-breeding ring-billed seagulls exposed to PFAS and halogenated flame retardants show sex-specific associations with thyroid hormones, corticosterone, and lipid metabolism markers, suggesting these chemicals may disrupt hormone regulation and energy metabolism.
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How global seafood trade is moving ‘forever chemicals’ from contaminated waters to dinner plates
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19 Dec 2025 | The Independent
Fish from parts of Asia and Oceania, including Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Australia’s eastern coast, showed the highest PFAS concentrations relative to the global average, while fish from Africa and North America had the lowest.
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U.S. military rejects Okinawa access requests over PFAS findings
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19 Dec 2025 | The Japan Times
The reply says that inspections could be considered only if there were agreed upon environmental standards enabling both sides to properly assess sampling results and clear scientific evidence identifying U.S. facilities as the pollution source.
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Reevaluating PFAS exposure risks from marine fish
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18 Dec 2025 | Science
A global modeling analysis finds that legacy PFAS exposure from marine fish may now be low for most countries due to production phaseouts, yet remains higher in places with very high seafood intake such as Greenland and Denmark, offering important insight for refining fish consumption guidance and noting where potential risk persists.
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Mark Ruffalo-produced documentary chronicles 8-year PFAS fight
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17 Dec 2025 | Port City Daily
Documentary “GenX: The Saga of Forever Chemicals,” directed by Wilmingtonian Elijah Yetter-Bowman and produced by well-known actor and environmental activist Mark Ruffalo, takes a comprehensive look at the contamination that has plagued the Cape Fear region for decades.
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Determination of analytical interferences for 4:2 fluorotelomer sulfonic acid in multiple agricultural matrices
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16 Dec 2025 | J Agric Food Chem
Naturally occurring oxidized fatty acids in crops were found to generate the same mass-spectrometric signals as 4:2 FTS, which could lead to potentially inaccurate PFAS measurements in agricultural products and may warrant careful method evaluation before results are reported.
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PFAS Action group announces interactive map collecting ‘Eat Safe Fish’ guidelines for Michigan
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11 Dec 2025 | Michigan Advance
On Tuesday, the group launched its 'Eat Safe Fish' mapping tool, which it developed in collaboration with the Ecology Center, collecting the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services 2025 'Do Not Eat' and consumption limitation advisories into an interactive map.