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A new study has uncovered a shocking link between PFAS — also known as “forever chemicals — and autism in men.
As research continues on forever chemicals, the study authors recommend reducing exposure by avoiding PFAS-coated cooking ...
The public, legislators, and media often group per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS or "forever chemicals," ...
Legacy PFAS like PFOA and PFOS were known to take years to leave the body, whereas the shorter chain ones more often in use today are shown to be expelled more along the timeframe of months.
To efficiently remove long-chain PFAS, the carbon ordinarily needs to be replaced after two or three years. For the short-chains, it might have to be swapped after just a few months.
The Minnesota manufacturer, which pioneered the use of PFAS or "forever chemicals" through decades, might be stuck using PFAS after its 2025 deadline to stop making them. While the company will ...
Plants take PFAS from the ground but they are more likely to be PFAS with a shorter chain of atoms, which have higher advisory limits, he added.
The so-called forever chemicals known as PFAS come from households, commercial enterprises and other sources and are found ...
The ban led the industry to instead use short-chain PFAS compounds that contain chains with fewer than eight fluorinated carbons, like 6:2 fluorotelomer alcohol. That didn’t turn out well, either.
Alarming levels of dangerous chemicals known as PFAS were discovered in food packaging at a number of well-known fast-food and fast-casual restaurants and grocery store chains, a new report found.
Tyler Hoskins and Andrew Todd of the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources are studying the kinds of ponds many people ...
The lawsuit says Thinx underwear, long marketed as safe and sustainable, contains harmful chemical substances known as PFAS. The company denies those allegations but will pay up to $5 million.