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What you need to know about Minnesota's Jan. 1 ban on PFAS chemicals in food containers
Policy
13 Dec 2023
Minnesota's law is far-reaching, allowing no exemptions, no minimum limit for PFAS and no cap to potential fines. And it covers more than just packaging that directly touches food.
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‘Forever chemicals’ remain in Minnesota, but Pentagon says PFAS are crucial to national security
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13 Dec 2023 | KSTP
3M recently announced it will stop manufacturing PFAS by 2025, and a new Minnesota law bans all non-essential uses of the chemicals, but now the effort to expand reforms is being called a threat to national security.
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Netherlands warns children not to swallow sea foam over PFAS concerns
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13 Dec 2023 | The Guardian
The Dutch government has warned people to stop children and pets swallowing foam at the seaside, after a study showed “forever chemicals” were concentrated in the sea foam.
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Associations of a Prenatal Serum Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Mixture with the Cord Serum Metabolome in the HOME Study
Science
13 Dec 2023 | Environ Sci Technol
Prenatal exposure to a mixture of PFAS in mothers is linked to alterations in infant metabolic pathways, which can result in birthweight or vaccine response abnormalities.
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Testing for forever chemicals in water will likely increase your water bill
News
11 Dec 2023 | KFYR
But while testing water might have health benefits, it could end up hitting residents in the wallet.
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In vitro screening of per-and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) for interference with seven thyroid hormone system targets across nine assays
Science
10 Dec 2023 | Toxicology in Vitro
85 of 136 tested PFAS affected key molecular events in the thyroid and endocrine hormone system, potentially resulting in associated health and ecological effects.
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‘Never seen a group of substances’ like these: House lawmakers told of the perils of PFAS
News
8 Dec 2023 | Florida Politics
As Florida lawmakers continue efforts to keep the state’s environment clean, lawmakers heard of a possible threat that could cause harm to the state’s residents.
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[Perspective] Global Perspective on the Impact of Plastic Waste as a Source of Microplastics and Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in the Environment
Science
8 Dec 2023 | ACS ES&T Water
Microplastics (MPs) and PFAS in the environment pose a serious threat to ecosystems and MPs act as carriers for PFAS, creating a secondary source of pollution–highlighting the need to better understand this interaction.
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Gerald R. Ford Airport PFAs contamination lawsuit returned to Kent County court
News
6 Dec 2023 | UpNorthLive ABC
A PFAS lawsuit against the Gerald R. Ford International Airport Authority will now be executed in Kent County's 17th Circuit Court.
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US EPA orders packaging firm Inhance to stop making PFAS
News
6 Dec 2023 | c&en
The EPA says the process, used by Inhance Technologies to treat millions of HDPE plastic containers each year, creates dangerous PFAS impurities that can leach into products stored in the treated containers.
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Proposed rules would allow any commercial farm contaminated by PFAS to apply for financial assistance
Policy
4 Dec 2023
Maine so far has focused on farms that were contaminated through the spreading of wastewater sludge.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in little penguins and associations with urbanisation and health parameters
Science
4 Dec 2023 | Sci Total Environ
Tasmania penguins were found to be exposed to PFAS, with higher concentrations near urbanized breeding sites, resulting in potential health risks such as sex-specific associations with blood cell development and function.
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New N.C. Regulatory Proposal Puts Burden of PFAS Clean-Up Costs on Polluters, Not Ratepayers
Policy
2 Dec 2023
North Carolina House Bill 864 would empower state agencies to order “the responsible party to pay the public water system any actual and necessary costs incurred by the public water system to remove, correct, or abate any adverse effects upon the water supply resulting from the contamination for which the person is responsible.”
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Prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and early childhood adiposity and cardiometabolic health in the Healthy Start study
Science
2 Dec 2023 | IJO
Exposure to PFAS during pregnancy was found to be associated with increased body mass in early childhood, particularly in terms of precisely measured fat mass, emphasizing potential health implications for children exposed to PFAS during gestation.
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Harmful ‘forever chemicals’ found in freshwater fish, yet most states don’t warn residents
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1 Dec 2023 | USA Today
With no federal guidance, what is considered safe to eat varies significantly among states, most of which provide no regulation.