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A forever chemical known as TFA is accumulating in our environment, contaminating our rivers, food and even our wine.
When tested on their own and in mice, these bacterial strains from the human microbiome show promise in accumulating PFAS ...
PFAS chemicals, “forever chemicals,” get into your body through common household items and your food.
Cambridge scientists have spotted gut bacteria that greedily soak up PFAS “forever chemicals,” then ferry them safely out of ...
EPA delays enforcement of limits on toxic PFAS chemicals, including GenX, until 2031, raising concerns among scientists and ...
How did PFAS – known as ‘forever chemicals’ – manage to infiltrate global water sources so extensively before anyone realised?
So does the "Chemical Strategy for Sustainability " which promised, a year later, a "toxic-free environment" by 2030. The PFAS ban proposal had built on this momentum.
Bulky molecules mimic some properties of PFAS without their long-lasting chemical bonds and could replace PFAS in some water-repelling applications.
PFAS are a collection of thousands of human-made chemical compounds. They get their ‘forever’ nickname from their almost unbreakable bonds between carbon and fluorine atoms.
Any chemical with this bond is a PFAS under Minnesota state law, but FDA-approved medications are exempted from a state ban.
CONCORD, N.H. — New research has found high concentrations of toxic PFAS chemicals in samples of foam that forms on two Seacoast waterways, according to preliminary results from the University ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this year issued restrictions on PFAS in drinking water -the first time that the standards had been finalized for a new chemical since 1996.