A forever chemical known as TFA is accumulating in our environment, contaminating our rivers, food and even our wine.

EPA delays enforcement of limits on toxic PFAS chemicals, including GenX, until 2031, raising concerns among scientists and ...

Cambridge scientists have spotted gut bacteria that greedily soak up PFAS “forever chemicals,” then ferry them safely out of ...

Many medications contain carbon-fluorine bonds, some of the strongest bonds in chemistry. Any chemical with this bond is a PFAS under Minnesota state law, but FDA-approved medications are exempted ...

PFAS is short for a mouthful of a name: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. These chemicals were designed not to deteriorate naturally, and to remain grease-, stain- and water-resistant.

In the lab, the researchers dissolved each PFAS chemical in methanol. They then applied 500 nanograms per square centimeter of the chemicals to models made from lab-grown human epidermis cells for ...

Bulky molecules mimic some properties of PFAS without their long-lasting chemical bonds and could replace PFAS in some water-repelling applications. Skip to content. Subscribe or renew today ...

In the years since, the chemical industry has paid out billions in settlement fees around PFAS lawsuits: in 2024, the American multinational 3M agreed to pay between $10 billion and $12.5 billion ...

A universal definition for PFAS would allow legislators to cover all their bases, restricting the use of PFAS as a collective chemical group and preventing the opportunistic use of new compounds. But ...

Shortly afterward, Germany, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Sweden set about developing a text that would affect the entire chemical "universe" of PFAS at once – over 10,000 substances.