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• ‘Forever chemicals’ now found in Massachusetts schools

  News

  9 Sep 2019 | Boston Globe

  The water fountains [at the schools in Stow] have been turned off. The state decided to test the water in Stow because of the schools’ proximity to the former Fort Devens-Sudbury Training Annex... wells at the Hale School had a cumulative total of more than 38 ppt of five of the chemicals; the Center School had more than 24 ppt.

• What toxicologist says parents should know about PFAS exposure

  News

  9 Sep 2019 | MLive

  Jamie DeWitt, a pharmacology and toxicology professor at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, provides practical information relating to PFAS contamination.

• Assessing the contribution of atmospheric transport and tourism activities to the occurrence of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in an Alpine Nature Reserve

  Science

  9 Sep 2019 | Sci. Total Environ.

  Ski tourism is a significant source of PFAS contamination in a remote alpine lake in China

• Rapid removal of poly- and perfluorinated compounds from investigation- derived waste (IDW) in a pilot-scale plasma reactor

  Science

  9 Sep 2019 | Environ. Sci. Technol.

  PFAS were removed with up to 99% efficiency in well water.

• Estimating the relative magnitudes of adsorption to solid-water and air/oil-water interfaces for per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances

  Science

  9 Sep 2019 | Environ. Pollut.

  The ability of PFAS to move throughout the environment was investigated.

• Derivation of a chronic reference dose for perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHxS) for reproductive toxicity in mice

  Science

  9 Sep 2019 | Regul. Toxicol. Pharmacol.

  The total daily safe intake amount of PFHxS found to be 4.0 ng/kg in humans.

• Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker proposes funding to address PFAS problem

  News

  6 Sep 2019 | MassLive

  The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection could get $8.4 million to step up well water testing in search of PFAS contamination... Some of the money could also be used for point-of-consumption remediation efforts.

• Lawmakers push for state limit on PFAS in Delaware drinking water

  News

  6 Sep 2019 | Delaware Public Media

  Leaders of the State Senate Environmental and Natural Resources Committee and House Natural Resources Committee sent a letter 1 to Gov. John Carney asking him to direct the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and the Department of Health and Social Services to develop MCL rulemakings for PFAS in public drinking water.

• At Michigan schools, urgent PFAS response no guarantee

  News

  5 Sep 2019 | MLive

  The state tested about 1,380 public water systems and 460 schools, daycares and Head Start centers on well water. However the State currently lacks authority to force schools to take any measures.

• New Hampshire bans PFAS in firefighting foam

  Policy

  4 Sep 2019

  New Hampshire has banned firefighting foams containing perfluoroalkyl chemicals.

• Michigan gets $4M to learn how much PFAS is in your blood

  News

  4 Sep 2019 | MLive

  The first initiative, called the Michigan Chemical Exposure Monitoring program (MiChEM), will indicate the human blood levels of PFAS..., PCBs, certain pesticides and heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury and lead. A second portion of the grant will be used for more targeted testing: Checking firefighters for how much PFAS is in their blood....New York and New Jersey also will be gathering statewide PFAS data.

• Distribution of eight perfluoroalkyl acids in plant-soil-water systems and their effect on the soil microbial community

  Science

  4 Sep 2019 | Sci. of Total Envi.

  Some grasses found to remediate PFAS up to 82.8-99.6% at some levels.

• Denmark just became the first country to ban PFAS 'forever chemicals' from food packaging

  News

  4 Sep 2019 | CNN

  Under Denmark's new regulation food packaging, for example, baking paper, and microwave popcorn bags will be required to be manufactured without any PFAS.

• Elucidating the fate of perfluorooctanoate sulfonate using a rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) physiologically-based toxicokinetic model

  Science

  4 Sep 2019 | Sci. Total Environ.

  PFAS was traced throughout the body of rainbow trout to determine distribution and routes of elimination.

• Toxicity of perfluorinated compounds to soil microbial activity: Effect of carbon chain length, functional group and soil properties

  Science

  4 Sep 2019 | Sci. Total Environ.

  Sulfonic PFAS found to have higher toxicity than the carboxylic PFAS in microbial communities.