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Want single-use foodware without harmful chemicals? A new certification will help you find it
News
11 Apr 2022 | Environmental Health News
Here’s a secret about single-use foodware: brands and manufacturers don’t have to tell what’s in it, and in some cases, they don’t even know.
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Exploring the origin of efficient adsorption of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in household point-of-use water purifiers: Deep insights from a joint experimental and computational study
Science
11 Apr 2022 | Sci Total Environ
Household point-of-use water purifiers using activated carbon can achieve up to 99% removal of 14 legacy and emerging PFAS in tap water.
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New Washington state bill is the “fastest timeline in the nation” for phasing out PFAS
Policy
7 Apr 2022
A new Washington state bill, signed into law last Thursday by Gov. Jay Inslee, aims to phase out PFAS in select consumer products by 2025.
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Aclarity Closes $3.3 Million Seed Round To Deploy PFAS Destruction Technology, Eliminate Cancerous Chemicals From Water
News
7 Apr 2022 | Forbes
A federal roadmap for addressing PFAS chemicals calls for more cleanup work in the United States.
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EPA Releases National PFAS Datasets Data Collection Tool
Policy
6 Apr 2022
Recently, EPA published a compilation of National PFAS Datasets that include a substantial amount of data regarding sources of PFAS across the country.
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PFAS Air Regulations Proposed By House
Policy
6 Apr 2022
In the latest federal legislative move to try to force the EPA to take quicker action than contemplated by the agency’s PFAS Roadmap of 2021, a bill was recently introduced in the House that would require the EPA to set air emission limits for all PFAS under the Clean Air Act
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Healthy eating index and diet diversity score as determinants of serum perfluoroalkyl acid (PFAA) concentrations in a national survey of Swedish adolescents
Science
6 Apr 2022 | Environ. Res.
Adolescents with a healthy dietary pattern had on average higher PFAA serum levels.
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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Facemasks: Potential Source of Human Exposure to PFAS with Implications for Disposal to Landfills
Science
6 Apr 2022 | ES&T
Preliminary findings indicate that wearing masks treated with high levels of PFAS for extended periods of time can be a notable source of PFAS exposure and have the potential to pose a health risk.
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Assessment of the Emerging Threat Posed by Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances to Male Reproduction in Humans
Science
6 Apr 2022 | Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)
This review describes the effects of PFAS on human health, especially relating to male reproduction, such as associations between PFAS exposure and the incidence of testicular cancer and the reduction in semen quality.
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Scientists sound alarm at US regulator’s new ‘forever chemicals’ definition
News
5 Apr 2022 | The Guardians
The EPA responsible for protecting the public from toxic substances is working under a new definition of PFAS “forever chemicals” that excludes some of their widely used compounds.
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Determination of total reducible organofluorine in PFAS-impacted aqueous samples based on hydrated electron defluorination
Science
5 Apr 2022 | Sci. Total Environ.
TROF provides a new indicator for PFASs contamination.
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Washington PFAS Law Takes Aim At Consumer Goods
Policy
5 Apr 2022
On March 31, 2022, Washington’s Governor signed into law a bill that significantly accelerates the state’s initiative to develop regulations for various consumer goods that contain PFAS.
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The ski wax industry is working to leave PFAS behind
News
4 Apr 2022 | MarketPlace
From what he knew, these “fluorinated” or PFAS, additives had been in ski equipment in some form or another for decades.
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Starbucks announces ban of toxic “forever chemicals” in its food packaging
News
1 Apr 2022 | Toxic Free Future
On March 15, 2022, international coffee giant Starbucks announced its first-ever commitment to eliminate toxic PFAS in its food packaging materials.
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Extracting and Comparing PFAS from Literature and Patent Documents using Open Access Chemistry Toolkits
Science
31 Mar 2022 | Comput. Theor. Chem.
Three open access chemical information toolkits were used to automatically search for PFAS based on structure, and all yielded different results. Overall, ~1.7 million PFAS were identified from patents and ~27 thousand from COnnecting REpositories (CORE).