The California company said this achievement follows a multi-year effort to eliminate fluorocarbon-based finishes from every fabric category.

The more we test, the more we’re going to detect,” Andrew Shapero, Nantucket’s new environmental contamination administrator, ...

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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination is a critical global concern due to the chemicals' persistence and widespread presence in the environment. As research links PFAS to serious ...

Experiments in mice show that some gut bacteria can absorb toxic PFAS chemicals, allowing animals to expel them through feces.

Some of those PFAS uses are “required by regulatory or industry standards,” 3M wrote in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, while in other cases, there simply aren’t PFAS-free ...

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A bipartisan group in the U.S. House has reintroduced the PFAS Alternatives Act, legislation aimed at developing PFAS-free protective gear for firefighters.. Sponsored by Reps. Debbie Dingell (D ...

Fujifilm Corp. (Tokyo) announced that it has developed a PFAS-free negative-type ArF immersion resist for use in advanced semiconductor manufacturing ...

The new program, which is voluntary, provides sampling kits to ensure contamination-free soil collection, and provides data on 14 PFAS directly to the farmers who submit samples.