PFAS – News and Features

Study reveals efforts to address widespread PFAS contamination affecting millions of Americans, and highlights variation in management of the issue between state and federal regulators.

Novel material removes pollutant PFOA to levels far below EPA’s health advisory limit.

New method enables researchers to track the fate PFAS when they enter the body.

We spoke to Neil Donovan from I2 Analytical about the problem that scientists face when analyzing contaminated water samples, and how the technology and instrumentation has changed over the years.

DuPont and Chemours have agreed to pay $670 million to settle 3,550 lawsuits in Ohio and West Virginia by residents who say they were sickened by drinking water contaminated by perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) released from a former DuPont plant in Parkersburg, W. Va

A comprehensive analysis has found more than two dozen toxic highly fluorinated chemicals, including a phased-out substance, in food packaging

High levels of fluorinated compounds have been linked to cancer, hormone disruption.

Fire-fighting foam containing highly fluorinated chemicals is contaminating drinking water supplies around many of the nation’s military bases, airports and industrial sites.

A new environmental toxicity study has found that exposure limits for perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) found in drinking water appear to be 100 to 1,000 times too high.

The methodology, developed by researchers from Mario Negri Institute, can be used to monitor and assess human exposure to perfluorinated compounds through sea food consumption.