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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• ECOS White Paper: Processes and Considerations for Setting State PFAS Standards, 2022 Update

  Policy

  31 Mar 2022

  This March 2022 update reflects the addition of three states and new regulatory and scientific activities that have occurred over the past year. ECOS will continue to update it annually as appropriate.

• Municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) ash co-disposal: Influence on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) concentration in landfill leachate

  Science

  31 Mar 2022 | Waste Manag

  PFAS concentrations in leachates are higher when PFAS-rich unburned wastes are disposed of alongside incineration ash, even if the unburned fraction is small.

• Perfluoroalkyl acid and bisphenol-A exposure via food sources in four First Nation communities in Quebec, Canada

  Science

  31 Mar 2022 | Public Health Nutr

  PFNA and BPA concentrations were highest amongst First Nations people compared to other Canadian groups, with dairy products having the highest concentrations.

• Years after flags, Wolverine Worldwide plant caught in PFAS probe

  News

  30 Mar 2022 | MLive

  Investigators have finally made their way to a Wolverine Worldwide facility where the company manufactured shoe parts near the Rogue River, five years after the initial discovery of widespread toxic ‘forever chemical’ pollution in the northern Kent County suburbs.

• PFAS in household waste may be going airborne

  News

  28 Mar 2022 | Environmental Health News

  Now ‘PFAS in air emissions and incineration are becoming more of a focus,’ Lydia Jahl, a science and policy associate for the Green Science Policy Institute, told EHN.

• Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in the blood of police and Beagle dogs from Harbin, China: Concentrations and associations with hematological parameters

  Science

  28 Mar 2022 | Chemosphere

  Dominant PFAS in the blood of dogs were found to be PFOA, PFBA, and PFOS, and PFAS exposure was linked to many changes in biochemical blood parameters like cholesterol.

• ‘I don’t know how we’ll survive’: the farmers facing ruin in Maine’s ‘forever chemicals’ crisis

  News

  22 Mar 2022 | The Guardian

  Songbird Farm’s 17 acres (7 hectares) hold sandy loam fields, three greenhouses and cutover woods that comprise an idyllic setting near Maine’s central coast.

• [Press Release] New Kildee Bill Would Ensure Health Care For Veterans Exposed To PFAS Chemicals

  Policy

  22 Mar 2022

  New Legislation Requires Veterans’ Affairs to Cover Health Conditions Linked to PFAS Contamination at Military Bases.

• Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Risk of Myocardial Infarction and Stroke: A Nested Case–Control Study in Sweden

  Science

  22 Mar 2022 | EHP

  Exposure to PFAS was associated with increased cholesterol levels but not an increased risk of myocardial infarction or stroke.

• How the way we eliminate toxic PFAS from water also takes an environmental toll

  News

  21 Mar 2022 | WHYY.org

  But protecting people’s health has a consequence: The technology most effective at removing PFAS contributes to the carbon footprint.