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Bill that would restrict PFAS in consumer products heads to governor
News
9 May 2024 | Vermont Public
The Vermont Legislature gave its final approval Tuesday to a bill that restricts toxic so-called "forever chemicals" in a suite of commercial goods.
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Can Bees Detect Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS)?
Science
9 May 2024 | Environ Toxicol Chem
Bee behavior testing revealed that bees avoid syrup spiked with high levels of PFOS when given a choice between contaminated and uncontaminated food. This may have implications for bee health, pollination, and human health as PFOS has been detected in honey.
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Cancer-causing chemicals ban signed into law
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8 May 2024 | Coloradoan
On May 1, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed SB24-081 Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Chemicals (PFAS), which will now prohibit the sale or distribution of certain products containing PFAS in a gradual product phaseout beginning Jan. 1, 2025, and continuing through 2028.
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Total and Class-Specific Determination of Fluorinated Compounds in Consumer and Food Packaging Samples Using Fluorine-19 Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Science
8 May 2024 | Anal Chem
Hamburger wrapping paper was tested for PFAS using total organic fluorine (TOF) and fluorine-19 solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (19F ss-NMR) spectroscopy, revealing limitations in TOF's accuracy due to extraction variability and highlighting the abilities of 19F ss-NMR to directly detect PFAS in food packaging.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and fetal growth: A nation-wide register-based study on PFAS in drinking water
Science
8 May 2024 | Environ Int
A nationwide study in Sweden found no clear link between maternal exposure to certain PFAS during pregnancy and newborn birthweight or risk of being small-for-gestational-age, but did find a slight increase in the risk of being large-for-gestational-age, particularly associated with PFOS.
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Republicans approve spending $36M opioid settlement money but again shut down PFAS talks
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7 May 2024 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Republicans on the state's powerful budget committee approved their own plan for how to spend money received from opioid settlements and again refused to take up funding for addressing PFAS in a meeting Tuesday.
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[Public Comment] Filing of Food Additive Petition From Environmental Defense Fund
Policy
6 May 2024
The Food and Drug Administration is announcing that it has filed a food additive petition, submitted by Environmental Defense Fund et al., proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to remove fluorinated polyethylene.
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[Video] ‘They told us that this material would be safe.’ Toxic PFAS discovered on US farms
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6 May 2024 | CNN
Farms across Maine are discovering toxic PFAS chemicals in their soil and water. But the problem could impact millions of acres of farmland nationwide.
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Rapidly rising levels of TFA ‘forever chemical’ alarm experts
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6 May 2024 | The Guardian
Trifluoroacetic acid found in drinking water and rain is thought to damage fertility and child development.
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Ask the Expert: How does NIEHS research on PFAS affect me?
News
6 May 2024 | Environmental Factor
Scott Masten, Ph.D., who directs the Office of Portfolio Strategy in the NIEHS Division of Translational Toxicology, discussed the recent PFAS measures and what people can do to reduce their exposures.
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Unregulated contaminants in drinking water: Evidence from PFAS and housing prices
Science
6 May 2024 | JEEM
Public awareness of unregulated PFAS contamination in drinking water significantly decreases property values of affected homes, potentially exacerbating environmental inequality through residential sorting.
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[Report] Ronneby PFAS Research Programme
Science
6 May 2024
A decade of research on PFAS exposure through drinking water in a Swedish municipality confirms known risks like elevated cholesterol and kidney cancer while uncovering new ones such as osteoporosis fractures, diabetes, PCOS, and language disorders in children, highlighting the need for further investigation.
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What are PFAS? 'Forever chemicals' are common and dangerous.
News
2 May 2024 | USA Today
"The general public shouldn’t be responsible for removing their PFAS exposure as the chemicals were released into the environment by chemical companies in the first place," says Dr. Erin Haynes, a professor of preventive medicine and environmental health at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health.
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Distribution of Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in a Waste-to-Energy Plant - Tracking PFASs in Internal Residual Streams
Science
30 Apr 2024 | ES&T
PFAS were detected in all Waste-to-Energy plant residues except for boiler ash, with wet flue gas treatment reducing PFAS levels by 35% ± 10%, indicating that there is still a need for a safe disposal method of products containing PFAS.
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Assessment and Comparison of Early Developmental Toxicity of Six Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances with Human Embryonic Stem Cell Models
Science
30 Apr 2024 | Environ Sci Technol
Six PFAS compounds were found to disrupt cell fate determination, cilia formation, and gene expression in human embryonic stem cell models, signaling potential adverse health effects on early embryonic development.