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Magnets key to removing dangerous PFAS chemicals
News
20 Jan 2023 | The Age
Queensland researchers have developed a way to quickly and simply remove dangerous PFAS chemicals from water using magnets.
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Bioaccessibility of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in food and dust: Implication for more accurate risk assessment
Science
20 Jan 2023 | Sci Total Environ
The bioaccessibility of PFAS was higher in simulated animal foods than in simulated vegetable foods, and the bioaccessibility of most very long-chain PFAS was higher in food than in dust.
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'Concerning' map reveals where fish caught in the US are full of hazardous 'forever chemicals'
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19 Jan 2023 | Insider
Eating fish from a local lake or stream could give you a giant dose of hazardous "forever chemicals," equal to nearly a month of drinking highly contaminated water, researchers have calculated.
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'Concerning' map reveals where fish caught in the US are full of hazardous 'forever chemicals'
News
19 Jan 2023 | Insider
Eating fish from a local lake or stream could give you a giant dose of hazardous "forever chemicals," equal to nearly a month of drinking highly contaminated water, researchers have calculated.
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‘All-natural’ Simply Orange Juice has high toxic PFAS levels, lawsuit alleges
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19 Jan 2023 | The Guardian
A new class-action lawsuit in the US alleges Coca-Cola and Simply Orange Juice deceived customers with claims of an all-natural, healthy product when the juice has been found to be contaminated with toxic PFAS at levels ‘hundreds of times’ above federal advisory limits for drinking water.
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Why you can’t always trust claims on nontoxic cookware
News
18 Jan 2023 | WPVI
If you’re in the market for new pans in the new year, there is some important information about the non-stick variety you should know.
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The role of PFAS in unsettling ocean carbon sequestration
Science
18 Jan 2023 | Environ Monit Assess
The harmful effects of PFAS on marine ecosystems may weaken the ocean’s ability to capture and hold global warming carbon emissions.
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[Blog] Hungry for more: The EU limits “forever chemicals” in food – but the universal PFAS ban is still far away
Policy
17 Jan 2023
The EU has set limits for how much PFAS food sold within the union is allowed to contain.
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Locally caught fish are full of dangerous chemicals called PFAS, study finds
News
17 Jan 2023 | CNN
Fish caught in the fresh waters of the nation’s streams and rivers and the Great Lakes contain dangerously high levels of PFOS, a known synthetic toxin phased out by the federal government, according to a study of data from the US EPA.
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Evaluation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in leachate, gas condensate, stormwater and groundwater at landfills
Science
17 Jan 2023 | Chemosphere
To prioritize and improve PFAS remediation from discarded consumer products, relationships were found between PFAS and landfill characteristics, including aqueous samples like leachate and stormwater.
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Bills to regulate toxic ‘forever chemicals’ died in Congress
Policy
13 Jan 2023
Lobbying industry flexed muscle to ensure bills that aimed to set stricter standards on PFAS compounds went nowhere.
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'Forever chemicals' still in use in UK make-up
News
13 Jan 2023 | BBC
Major beauty brands Urban Decay, Revolution and Inglot are selling make-up in the UK containing "forever chemicals", BBC News has found.
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[Blog] Updated DOD standards: Critical first step toward firefighting foam made without ‘forever chemicals’
Policy
12 Jan 2023
Today the Department of Defense quietly released new requirements for the firefighting foam it uses to put out jet fuel fires.
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PFAS Biotransformation Pathways: A Species Comparison Study
Science
12 Jan 2023 | Toxics
A metabolic pathway map was made to aid researchers in determining possible PFAS breakdown products in fish when no metabolic data is present.
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Prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and childhood autism-related outcomes
Science
12 Jan 2023 | Epidemiology
Mothers’ prenatal blood concentrations of PFNA may be associated with modest increases in their child’s autism-related traits.