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The International Bottled Water Association has adopted a tougher standard for its members: 5 parts per trillion for one PFAS compound and 10 parts per trillion for more than one compound.
Chemical manufacturing workers, firefighters and ski-wax technicians, for example, are more likely to engage with PFAs than others, which is why regulations around PFAs are so crucial.
There are chemicals in cookware, food, water, clothes and furniture that could cause problems for people’s health. These PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances — sometimes ...
The new rule requires municipal utilities to monitor their water supply for five PFAS chemicals and remove the contaminants when levels get too high—at a total cost of $1.5 billion per year ...
Water, water everywhere. On Wednesday, the Biden Administration announced strict limits on so-called “forever chemicals” — or PFAS — found in drinking water.
March 2018 The United States Department of Defense's (DoD)'s report to Congress said that test that they conducted showed that the amount of PFAS chemicals in water supplies near 126 DoD facilities, "exceeded the current safety guidelines". [71] The DoD has "used foam containing" PFAS chemicals "in exercises at bases across the country".
USGS map showing the number of PFAS detections in tap water samples from select sites across the US. In April 2024, the EPA issued a final drinking water rule for PFOA, PFOS, GenX, PFBS, PFNA, and PFHxS. Within three years, public water systems must remove these six PFAS to near-zero levels. States may be awarded grants up to $1 billion in aid ...
Complicating the issue of PFAS cleanup, water filters do not destroy the PFAS they remove, and that has led to questions about how best to manage an ever-growing supply of discarded pollutants as ...