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PFAS have been a subject of multiple lawsuits worldwide. [245] [246] [247] In the United States, settlements stemming from PFAS pollution claims have reached $18 billion by 2024. [248] In 2023, Sweden's Supreme Court set a legal precedent by awarding damages to citizens who were supplied PFAS contaminated drinking water. [249]
A new law taking effect on Jan. 1 in Minnesota will limit the use of PFAS “forever chemicals" in products – in turn creating a ban on certain youth motorsports equipment.
Oct. 15—It costs between $50 and $100 to produce a pound of a product containing forever chemicals. But if those chemicals infect a public water system, cleanup can cost millions per pound ...
Data from the 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in the United States found the average serum concentration of PFHxS in the general US population to be 1.9 μg/L, with the 10th and 90th percentiles being 0.7 and 8.3 μg/L, respectively. Some studies reported serum PFHxS concentrations in the United States to be gradually ...
Some exceptions to Minnesota's PFAS ban are written into the law, such as medical devices regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. But industry groups argue that some uses can never be replaced.
Early 2018 Department of Health & Human Services's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) was about to publish its assessment of PFAS chemicals, with a focus on two specific chemicals from the PFAS class—PFOA and PFOS—that have "contaminated water supplies near military bases, chemical plants and other sites from New York ...
In April, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced historic rules designed to strictly control levels of five of the most studied PFAS in the nation’s drinking water, one of the routes ...
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is a United States law, passed by the 94th United States Congress in 1976 and administered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that regulates chemicals not regulated by other U.S. federal statutes, [1] including chemicals already in commerce and the introduction of new chemicals.