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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.
Of nearly 1,300 samples it tested since 2019, most were PFAS-free, or at least free of the PFAS chemicals that tests would be able to detect, according to the US Food and Drug Administration.
In May, San Francisco passed a PFAS ban on firefighter gear, likely the first city-level legislation of its kind. Also this year, Concord, New Hampshire, approved $305,000 in funding for PFAS-free ...
“These PFAS drinking water standards will save the lives of countless Americans for generations to come. Together, we have shown that government can work for all of us.” Wisconsin groups ...
In the United States, PFAS-attributable disease costs are estimated to be US$6–62 billion. [39] [40] In January 2025, reports stated that the cost of cleaning up toxic PFAS pollution in the UK and Europe could exceed £1.6 trillion over the next 20 years, averaging £84 billion annually. [41]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...