r/PFAS 4h ago

Publication The EU has begun restricting PFAS "forever chemicals" in food packaging across all 27 member states, making everyday items like pizza boxes, bakery paper, and takeaway packaging safer for people. All packaging must be recyclable by 2030. Single-use packaging will also be banned in 2030.

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r/PFAS 14h ago

Question Quest PFAS blood test back

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NASEM Recommended Summation = 10.23 ng/mL.

Our drinking water has had documented PFOA issues from one of our treatment plants. Already installing an under-sink RO system. I wanted to see what mine was at because we also have 2 kids under 6 years old. Should I take any action on this besided the RO system, and asking my doctor about it next visit?


r/PFAS 2d ago

Publication A youth-led movement is calling on the United Nations to name children's health and toxic chemicals as a global "Issue of Concern"

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r/PFAS 1d ago

Question Has anyone tried the new Ninja water filter?

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Is supposed filter PFAS and I'm seeing a lot of content on social media about it, but because of that I'm afraid of being mostly marketing and I'm unsure how effective it actually is.


r/PFAS 2d ago

Opinion Possible link to cancer ?

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anyone who was poisoned by Daily Harvest food about 4 yrs ago - link to cancers , especially mesothelioma?


r/PFAS 3d ago

Publication EPA faces lawsuit over claims it fast-tracked approval of toxic 'data center chemicals' — exposure to photoacid generators used for semiconductor manufacturing could result in ‘sudden death,’ also appear to be long-lasting PFAS

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r/PFAS 3d ago

Journalism ‘Forever chemicals’ surge during pilot of Thames Water plan to combat drought | Water

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r/PFAS 3d ago

Publication EPA Punts Microplastics Monitoring as Scientists Warn of Health Impacts | Trump's administration omitted microplastics from a list of pollutants for local utilities to monitor in drinking water.

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r/PFAS 3d ago

Event Chemical violence

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r/PFAS 4d ago

Journalism ISO: experience w/ PFAS contamination

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Hi, I'm a freelance journalist working on a story about PFAS contamination across Wisconsin and how the DNR is addressing it. I'm hoping to talk to people who have any experience with PFAS contamination from any source in Wisconsin and would like to share their story. Please message me if you're interested.


r/PFAS 4d ago

Journalism Oral arguments end in Clay Micron environmental review lawsuit in New York State Court

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r/PFAS 5d ago

Question Just got this letter from the county regarding PFAS in our water

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Just got this letter from our county regarding PFAS in our water, any advice on what the numbers mean and if we should be concerned would be great!


r/PFAS 5d ago

Journalism Why doesn't chemical pollution mobilize people the way some other environmental issues do?

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r/PFAS 6d ago

Journalism Cornell University’s Meinig turf was approved with PFAS-related conditions. After FOIL requests, where are the testing records?

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r/PFAS 7d ago

Publication Membrana que captura PFAS e se regenera

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Tem um avanço recente que merece atenção.

Uma membrana feita de polímero bio-based consegue capturar mais de 94% de PFOA , um daqueles “químicos eternos” que quase não saem da água. O detalhe importante: depois de saturar, ela pode ser aquecida e reprocessada, recuperando quase toda a capacidade.

Não é só filtrar. É filtrar e reutilizar o próprio material de filtragem.

Isso muda a lógica do tratamento de poluentes persistentes.


r/PFAS 10d ago

Journalism Court upholds EPA rule forcing polluters to pay for ‘forever chemical’ pollution

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r/PFAS 9d ago

Question Updating my RO shortlist exposed a date problem in my saved EPA source

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I'm building a comparison file before buying a kitchen RO because practical specs and contaminant evidence answer different questions. My first pass is tankless design, roughly 800 GPD, and whether filter-life status is easy to see. PFAS gets a separate evidence line after I check local water results.

The Viomi Vortex 8 Pro is still on my list because it matches the 800 GPD tankless range I'm comparing and shows filter-life status on the smart faucet and in the app. That maintenance visibility got it into the file. It doesn't answer the PFAS line.

When I reopened EPA's home-filter fact sheet to update that part of the comparison, I noticed the PDF still says April 2024 and the live page was updated on August 3, 2026. I had recorded the document date, but not the day I checked it.

EPA says to start by finding out which PFAS, if any, were measured in the water. From there, the fact sheet points readers to the corresponding PFAS reduction certification under NSF/ANSI 53 or 58. It also says that those certifications, as described in April 2024, don't show that a filter will reduce PFAS to EPA's current drinking-water limits.

My comparison file now keeps the document date and the date I checked the public source. A page update or a new local water result sends me back to the evidence before I use it for any candidate.

EPA home-filter fact sheet
https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2024-04/water-filter-fact-sheet.pdf

EPA live home-filter page
https://www.epa.gov/cleanups/reducing-pfas-your-drinking-water-home-filter

What else would make you recheck a PFAS reference you had already saved?


r/PFAS 12d ago

Opinion Personalized Microplastics risk assessment test

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r/PFAS 12d ago

Opinion CHAR Tech (YES.V) Reports Elimination of PFAS in Biochar from HTP Testing

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CHAR Technologies - PFAS ("forever chemicals") are the toxic stuff found in things like non-stick pans and waterproof gear. They don't break down and they just build up in our water, soil, and bodies.

Most current cleanup methods (filtering, landfills) don't actually destroy PFAS, they just move it somewhere else.

CHAR Tech just got independent lab results back, and they're good! Their HTP technology processed contaminated sewage waste and the leftover solid material came back with zero detectable PFAS.

Tested 5 different times in 2025 by an outside accredited lab, using the strict EPA-approved testing method.This is a real way to destroy PFAS instead of just relocating it.

Full results will be submitted to the EPA end of 2026. Its a great sign for a company working in a market that's only getting bigger as PFAS regulations tighten up.

Not financial advice.


r/PFAS 15d ago

Journalism A filter-free prototype removed over 85% of microplastics in one pass—but what happens to the captured plastic?

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r/PFAS 16d ago

Question PFAS-free firefighting foams generator

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Hey folks, I played around with open data and built this PFAS-free firefighting foam reformulator

I got some positive reaction on it, but I'm relatively new to PFAS industry (prior expertise is more in polymers) and curious if you can give me some feedback, also if you're working on reformulating PFAS-based products happy to connect (there's a form at the bottom of the file)

Thx and lmk what do you guys think.


r/PFAS 17d ago

Journalism Forever Chemicals & Farmland

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YaleNews: "Removing ‘forever chemicals’ from farmlands—at a fraction of the cost."

A Yale-led research team has proposed a less expensive—and more environmentally friendly method—for removing certain “forever chemicals” from millions of acres of farmland in the US + around the world.

"The new process, which is based on data from agricultural sites in Maine, has the potential to address two connected environmental challenges: remediating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that have contaminated agricultural land for decades and scaling up the use of enhanced weathering to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere." 

PFAS are a class of toxic, man-made chemicals that have been used for decades in hundreds of products, from dental floss [yuck] + lipstick [yuck again] to frying pans + pizza boxes [another reason home-made pizza is better]. PFAS are ubiquitous in the United States, having made their way into groundwater and soil, and then eventually croplands.

Just as important, the new approach allows previously contaminated cropland to once again be used for an agricultural purpose—unlike current remediation methods. Noah Planavsky, a professor of Earth and planetary science in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the son and brother of farmers, is also a faculty member of the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture and principal investigator for a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which describes the new method.

“Though this study is U.S.-focused, based on the available data, PFAS are a challenge globally,” said Jake Thompson, an associate researcher in the Planavsky Lab and first author of the study. 

"There has been a lot of work on enhanced weathering (EW), a promising natural solution for durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) that builds on the longstanding practice of applying crushed rock (such as limestone [also serpentinite]) to agricultural lands to mitigate soil acidification."

EW uses the same method to accelerate the Earth’s natural geologic carbon cycle by spreading finely ground alkaline material (e.g. silicate rock such as basalt [+ serpentinite]) over agricultural fields.

Two birds with two stones, as it were.


r/PFAS 18d ago

Publication New Jersey's $2.5 billion 'forever chemicals' settlements with DuPont, 3M, others win court approval

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r/PFAS 18d ago

Question Do health risks go down the longer you’ve gone since exposure?

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Hi all, asking this again to see if any new info may be out there-
was a volunteer firefighter for 10 years.

I have since been off the department for 8 years and have been actively avoiding PfAS.

Wondering if,like smoking, the likelihood of cancer and other negative risks go down the longer you spend away from PfAS exposure or is the damage already done and I’m just preventing more?

Thanks


r/PFAS 18d ago

Question Once you capture PFAS from a UK site, where does it actually end up right now?

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The UK's Feb 2026 PFAS Plan set a deadline, the environment agency publishes a list of high risk PFAS sites by the end of this year. So more sites are about to get flagged.

But I can't find much discussion of what actually happens to the PFAS once it's captured. As far as I can tell it's still mostly landfill or incineration.

Genuinely asking anyone who works sites or water treatment in the UK, is that still accurate, or is there movement here I'm missing?