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NASEM publishes report to guide USDA’s response to PFAS in agricultural systems
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16 Feb 2026 | Food Safety Magazine
Despite this potential, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identified practical barriers, such as program oversubscription, eligibility constraints, and producers’ reluctance to pursue assistance due to concerns about attracting regulatory attention.
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Microplastics as vectors of antibiotics, heavy metals, and PFAS from agricultural soils to the food chain: Sources, transport pathways, and human health implications
Science
15 Feb 2026 | J. Hazard. Mater.
PFAS adsorption was generally highest on PET and in polypropylene, indicating that certain widely used polymers may preferentially accumulate PFAS and potentially enhance their transport within agricultural and food systems.
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Guidance for federal conservation programs on PFAS on agricultural lands offered in new report
Policy
13 Feb 2026
The report examines the scope of PFAS challenges in agriculture and identifies steps these agencies could take to reduce impacts on natural resources and agricultural productivity.
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Firefighters Wore Gear Containing “Forever Chemicals.” The Forest Service Knew and Stayed Silent for Years.
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11 Feb 2026 | ProPublica
“They just obfuscate,” said Broyles. “It’s just a continuation of the same thing: ‘We’re going to stick our heads in the sand and hope that nobody notices.’”
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Georgia bill would block families from suing carpetmakers for contamination on their land, water
Policy
10 Feb 2026
He is part of a growing list of families suing carpet manufacturers and chemical companies in the Dalton area, saying they knew of the dangers stain resistant products posed “but hid them.”
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Tracking PFAS across environmental media surrounding fluorochemical industrial park: Insights from nontarget analysis and risk assessment
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7 Feb 2026 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
A fluorochemical industrial park in Zhejiang, China identified 112 PFAS across water, sediment, and soil, many of them emerging compounds that may pose ecological and human health risks comparable to or greater than legacy substances, suggesting emissions could contribute to complex and undercharacterized contamination profiles not fully addressed by current monitoring frameworks.
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Connecticut provides required PFAS wording for product labels on certain consumer goods
Policy
6 Feb 2026
Under CGS § 22a-903c, which became effective in 2024, certain consumer products in designated categories must include an approved PFAS label to be manufactured, sold or distributed in Connecticut beginning July 1, 2026, with an outright ban to follow on January 1, 2028.
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PFAS levels in Great Lakes fish are dropping, study finds
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6 Feb 2026 | Wisconsin Public Radio
“We do see the ecosystem responding to these changes in industrial practices, which is a great thing,” Balgooyen said. “We know that industry is in a very powerful position at this point because what they do changes what’s happening in our environment.”
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The Olympics are ditching PFAS waxes — and the ‘ridiculous’ speed they gave skiers
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5 Feb 2026 | Grist
“I think it kind of is our duty as a winter sport to have some concern for the environment,” said Katherine Stewart-Jones, a cross-country skier who will represent Canada at the Games, which begin tomorrow.
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Inside America’s carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy
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5 Feb 2026 | AP
“That’s not a logo,” fumed Shaw, CEO of the world’s largest carpet company, one attendee later recalled. “That’s a target.”
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Profile distribution and health risk assessment of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in indoor dust from urban households in Uganda, East Africa
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3 Feb 2026 | Emerging Contaminants
A mixture of legacy and emerging PFAS was detected in indoor dust, most commonly fluorotelomer alcohols like 10:2 FTOH and 6:2 FOTH, sulfonamide N-EtFOSE, and ionic PFAS, likely originating from consumer products such as food packaging, semiconductors, and textiles.
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A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells
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2 Feb 2026 | AP
Stella is far from the only community near industrial sites and military bases nationwide where enormous amounts of PFAS have contaminated the landscape, posing a particular threat to nearby well owners.
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Exploring dog saliva as a non-invasive alternative to blood sampling for chemical exposome studies: analysis of synthetic phenolic antioxidants and PFAS.
Science
2 Feb 2026 | Front Vet Sci
In a pilot study of privately owned dogs, PFNA and both linear and branched PFOS were most frequently detected in saliva, while serum also contained PFOA, PFNA, PFDA, PFUnDA, PFBS, and PFHxS, indicating multi-congener PFAS exposure comparable to humans.
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PFAS in commercially available organic amendments and food-contact paper products
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1 Feb 2026 | Sci Total Environ
PFHxA and other short-chain PFCAs are dominant in composts and food-contact paper products, with PFOS dominant in biosolid-derived fertilizers, suggesting different waste sources may introduce distinct PFAS mixtures into soils used for gardening and agriculture.
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Model-based assessment of adsorption and diffusion of PFASs through concrete as continuous Source of PFASs to the environment
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28 Jan 2026 | ACS EST Engg.
Modeling of long-term laboratory data suggests PFAS may slowly diffuse into and back out of concrete, making paved surfaces a potentially persistent secondary source to surface runoff even after active releases stop.