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Unravelling the chemistry of PFAS transfer from packaging to food
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8 Dec 2025 | TIFS
PFAS used in paper, paperboard, compostable, and plastic food-contact materials may migrate into food through diffusion, partitioning, and degradation of polymer-bound PFAS, suggesting that these packaging materials may act as overlooked sources of dietary PFAS exposure and warrant closer regulatory attention.
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Investigating anaerobic digestion microbiome resilience to high PFOA and PFOS mixtures during cometabolism
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8 Dec 2025 | Bioresour. Technol.
High levels of PFOA and PFOS may interfere with how microbes create biogas during anaerobic digestion, which is important for waste-treatment policy because it suggests these chemicals can disrupt sludge processing while showing no clear signs of degradation.
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Assessing the impact of perfluoroalkyl substances on liver health: A comprehensive study using multi-donor human liver spheroids
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8 Dec 2025 | Environ. Int.
PFHxS, PFOA, PFOS, and PFNA may interfere with liver function in different ways depending on the specific chemical and the sex of the donor cells, potentially contributing to fat buildup in the liver, weakened immune activity, and molecular changes linked to cancer development.
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New York Farm Bureau calls for state to test sewage sludge for PFAS
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5 Dec 2025 | Spectrum News 1
The New York Farm Bureau will oppose the land application of contaminated sewage sludge and encourage testing prior to spreading, a change from their supportive position last year, the organization announced Friday.
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Are there forever chemicals in your water? Here's the latest data.
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5 Dec 2025 | USA Today
Since the EPA last updated these records in August, over 100 additional public drinking water systems have reported yearly averages of PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, that exceed new limits the EPA approved in 2024.
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High levels of ‘forever chemical’ found in cereal products across Europe – study
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4 Dec 2025 | The Guardian
The study found trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a chemical produced when pesticides containing Pfas chemicals break down into the soil, in breakfast cereals, popular sweets, pasta, croissants, wholemeal and refined bread, and flour.
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Development and validation of an LC-MS/MS method for simultaneous determination of 39 PFAS in soil samples: applications to playgrounds in Attica, Greece
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4 Dec 2025 | Anal Bioanal Chem
An optimized research method was found to be a useful tool for environmental and public-health decision making by reliably detecting 39 PFAS in playground soils, and the results suggest that some PFAS levels may potentially exceed a precautionary child-health screening value of about 100 ng per kg of body weight per day.
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Evaluation of fluorochemical leaching from lithium-ion batteries under simulated solid waste landfill conditions
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3 Dec 2025 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
Lithium-ion batteries may release multiple fluorochemicals, including PFAS such as 2,4-difluorobenzoic acid and several fluorinated electrolyte additives, under simulated landfill conditions, suggesting that end-of-life battery disposal may introduce additional PFAS sources into landfill leachate.
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New York City bill aims to ban toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in firefighting gear
Policy
2 Dec 2025
The New York fire department is the nation’s largest firefighting force, and approval of the legislation would mark a major win for advocates who are pushing for safer ‘turnout gear’ alternatives across the US.
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Lab-scale insights into the environmental fate of emerging contaminants from airport runoff
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1 Dec 2025 | J Contam Hydrol.
Laboratory evidence indicates that only some contaminants in airport runoff are naturally diminished during contact with sediments, whereas PFAS remain largely persistent, raising concerns about whether soil aquifer treatment can adequately protect groundwater from these chemicals.
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Assessing PFAS exposure in Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus canadensis nelsoni) populations adjacent to the former Rocky Flats nuclear site: A preliminary analysis.
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1 Dec 2025 | PLoS One
Preliminary analysis finds that PFOS was consistently detected in elk livers at both Rocky Flats and control sites while PFOA was not detected, suggesting that PFOS may accumulate in elk regardless of proximity to known contamination sources and highlighting potential wildlife exposure pathways and implications for game consumption.
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Officials make disturbing discovery after drawing blood from residents near US military base: 'We've had it'
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29 Nov 2025 | Yahoo!News
What was most staggering in the discovery, however, was that 26% of plume area participants had PFAS levels in the highest concentration tier, meaning they were exposed to nearly ten times the amount of the common group.
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EPA approves new pesticide with PFAS, sparking health concerns
Policy
28 Nov 2025
The EPA said in its approval documents that it found “no human-health risks of concern when used as directed.” Several experts dispute that conclusion and argue that the agency’s review did not fully account for how PFAS accumulate in soil and water or how they move into food.
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The Trump administration is deregulating forever chemicals
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28 Nov 2025 | Jacobin
Just this month, the EPA moved to approve two PFAS-based pesticides for use on crops, including tomatoes, peas, and lettuce. Despite the chemicals’ known dangers, the EPA created a new web page to assure the public of the “robust, chemical-specific process” that the agency uses to approve any pesticide.
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Maine was first to ban spreading PFAS-contaminated sludge on farmland. Now sludge is filling up landfills.
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28 Nov 2025 | Sentient Health
“When we think about policy change around PFAS in commercial products and our waste stream, we tend to focus on economic impacts,” said Adam Nordell, a farmer who had to close his operations a few years ago over high PFAS contamination and who now advocates about farmland contamination risks. “But at the end of the day, it’s a story about human health.”