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Aside from the bans involving firefighter gear, several other states have banned PFAS from other products. According to Safer States, a national alliance of environmental health organizations, 30 ...
As of June 2024, 11 U.S. states and two territories have passed statewide legislation to explicitly ban polystyrene foam: In 2019, Maryland was the first state to enact a ban, which went into effect on October 1, 2020. [79] Bans were also passed that year in Maine and Vermont, with both states' laws taking effect on July 1, 2021. [80] [81]
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 ...
The bill would have also banned industrial discharges of PFAS to water sources, and set up a fund to help test and treat private wells and public water system. Other states have also passed laws ...
A new EU drinking water directive issued in 2020 adopted PFAS limit values. The limit values are 0.1 μg/L for the sum of 20 PFASs including PFHxS, and 0.5 μg/L for the sum of all PFASs. This directive is binding for all EU member nations. It is a minimum directive, and member states can elect to adopt stricter regulations. [19]
Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden submitted a so-called restriction proposal based on the REACH regulation to achieve a European ban on the production, use, sale and import of PFAS. [116] The proposal states that a ban is necessary for all use of PFAS, with different periods for different applications when the ban takes ...
So the State adopted a law prohibiting the manufacture, sale and distribution of paper food packing made with PFAS and it goes into affect December 31, 2024. ... With the PFAS ban, ...
Other states that have issued PFAS standards include Michigan, New York and Vermont. [79] Between 2016 and 2021 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) tested tap water from 716 locations across the United States, finding PFAS levels exceeding the EPA advisories in approximately 75% of samples from urban areas and in approximately 25% of rural areas ...