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Firefighting foam trials present next big PFAS challenge for 3M
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1 Oct 2022 | Star Tribune
But the miracle firefighting foam's key ingredient was one of the "forever chemicals" that have come to haunt 3M. PFAS chemicals don't biodegrade, tainting the environment. They have been linked to cancer, liver damage, decreased fertility and other maladies.
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[Report] Invisible Unbreakable Unnatural
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1 Oct 2022 | Waterkeeper Alliance
This data unequivocally demonstrates that dangerous PFAS pollution is widespread in surface waters across the country, and that existing laws and regulations have been inadequate to protect public health and the environment from this under-appreciated threat.
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[Report] Groundwater Treatment to Remove PFAS: Restoring Local Drinking Water Supply in Orange County, California
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1 Oct 2022 | AWWA
The design and implementation of water treatment technologies to remove PFAS from groundwater is described for the Orange County Water District in California.
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Boston bans artificial turf in parks due to toxic ‘forever chemicals’
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30 Sep 2022 | The Guardian
The city joins a growing number across the US in limiting the use of artificial turf made with dangerous PFAS compounds.
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Forever chemicals: They’re in your drinking water and likely your food
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30 Sep 2022 | Chicago Tribune
Something as simple as drinking tap water is exposing millions of Illinoisans to toxic chemicals that build up in human blood, cause cancer and other diseases and take years to leave the body.
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Targeted and Suspect Screening of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Cosmetics and Personal Care Products
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30 Sep 2022 | Environ Sci Technol
Cosmetics and personal care products were found to contain a breadth of PFAS at extremely high levels, including in products without listed fluorinated ingredients, leading to human and environmental exposure.
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[Press Release] CA Gets Tougher On PFAS Chemicals Under Ting Bill Signed By The Governor
Policy
29 Sep 2022
The Golden State continues to crack down on the use of PFAS, chemicals that put our health and the environment at risk. Governor Newsom tonight signed AB 1817 by Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), which bans the use of these harmful substances in fabrics by 2025.
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Companies leaving Michigan with PFAS will ‘pay the price’ AG says in new lawsuit
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29 Sep 2022 | MLive
Companies leaving Michigan with PFAS will ‘pay the price’ AG says in new lawsuit companies leaving michigan with pfas will pay the price ag says in new lawsuit Thursday 29 September 2022 MLive Lindsay Moore US, Michigan PFAS, Manufacturing
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[Blog] PFAS Are Still Forever (and Not Your Best Friend)
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29 Sep 2022 | NRDC
Unfortunately most of these headlines were misleading on the imminence of solutions to the PFAS crisis and reflect misconceptions or misunderstandings of the technology and its status.
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Association between prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and anogenital distance in female neonates
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28 Sep 2022 | Ecotoxicol Environ Saf
High maternal concentrations of PFAS were associated with abnormalities in female neonates, indicating that PFAS may impair reproductive development in female offspring in early life.
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Eurofins Sacramento, in Collaboration with SCIEX USA, Achieves the Lowest Detection Limits for PFAS in Drinking Water
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27 Sep 2022 | Business Wire
Eurofins Sacramento, part of the Eurofins network of companies in the US, in collaboration with SCIEX USA, successfully achieved the analytical challenge of detecting the 2022 interim Health Advisory Levels of 4ppq for PFOA and 20ppq for PFOS, as established by the US EPA.
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Pentagon Shift to PFAS-Free Foam Spurring ‘Tidal Wave’ of Change
Policy
26 Sep 2022
Decades later, the former Air Force firefighter has diabetes, elevated cholesterol, and higher-than-average PFAS chemicals in his blood. And the Pentagon knows the PFAS-based foam he worked with had a noxious side
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Evaluation of iodide chemical ionization mass spectrometry for gas and aerosol-phase per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) analysis
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26 Sep 2022 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
A real-time method was developed to detect PFAS in the atmosphere in both the gas- and aerosol-phases, notably PFSAs and diPAPs.
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Transdermal absorption of C-perfluorooctanoic acid (C-PFOA) from a sunscreen in a male volunteer - What could be the contribution of cosmetics to the internal exposure of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)?
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26 Sep 2022 | Environ Int
Using sunscreen containing PFOA resulted in an increase of a volunteer’s PFOA blood levels by about 10%.
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‘Forever chemicals’ detected in all umbilical cord blood in 40 studies
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23 Sep 2022 | The Guardian
Studies collectively examined nearly 30,000 samples over the past five years in ‘disturbing’ findings.