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The MCLs for PFOA and PFOS apply to all 3,117 community, nontransient noncommunity, bottled, vended, retail, and bulk public water systems.

PFBA is a breakdown product of other PFAS that have been used in stain-resistant fabrics, paper food packaging, carpets, and consumer products.

This was found in a study from the DTU National Food Institute carried out in collaboration with the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration.

A new study published in Environmental Science & Technology investigates the ideal ratio between boron nitride and PFAS to remove fluorine atoms.

Future work will focus on developing new multifunctional framework materials and scaling up the process of embedding the metal-organic coatings into fabric, Mirica says.

The production of these reactive oxygen species from nanoplastics can endanger marine life and human health and potentially affects the mobility of the nanoplastics in the environment via redox reactions.

Data collected from fish taken from Sarasota Bay helps identify contaminants from plastic pollution getting into the food chain.

VLS Environmental Solutions has acquired Texas Molecular, one of the largest independent providers of industrial waste sequestration services in the United States.

As part of EPA’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap, the Agency also proposed a rule in December 2022 to enhance PFAS reporting to TRI by eliminating an exemption for small concentrations.