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Consumer Reports recently tested 47 bottled waters — including 35 noncarbonated and 12 carbonated options — and found levels of "toxic PFAS chemicals" in several popular brands that were above ...
PFAS are found in countless consumer goods, from nonstick cookware to cellphones. The chemicals have also been detected in drinking water nationwide. Fast food wrappers can contain harmful chemicals.
The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization that has extensively monitored PFAS pollution, issued filter recommendations to consumers last year after testing 10 commonly used at-home ...
Sales of PFAS, which cost approximately $20 per kilogram, generate a total industry profit of $4 billion per year on 16% profit margins. [29] Due to health concerns, several companies have ended or plan to end the sale of PFAS or products that contain them; these include W. L. Gore & Associates (the maker of Gore-Tex), H&M, Patagonia, REI, and 3M.
The state tested 128 white-tailed deer across Michigan, 20 deer each from four separate PFAS investigation areas and an additional 48 from other areas submitted by hunters during the 2017 hunting season. One of twenty deer tested near Clark's Marsh was found to have a PFOS level of 547 parts per billion (ppb) taken from a muscle sample.
Following initial discoveries of groundwater contamination in 2002, the Minnesota Department of Health conducted numerous studies –concluding in 2008, 2010, and 2014 – on the level of PFAs found in the bloodstreams of exposed residents. On February 20, 2018, the state of Minnesota settled its lawsuit against 3M in exchange for $850 million.
CONCORD — The New Hampshire Senate passed a bill to address the “critical” issue of PFAS contamination on Wednesday. HB 1649 would ban the sale of certain consumer products containing ...
Glaceau Smartwater (stylized as smartwater) is a brand of bottled water owned by Energy Brands, a subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company. [2] [3] Introduced in 1996 as Ice Mountain Spring Water and Glaceau Mineral Water in the United States, it became known as Smart Water in 1998.