“Forever chemicals” stop your food from sticking to the pan. They prevent stains on clothes and carpets. They help firefighting foam extinguish fires. But the very thing that makes “forever chemicals” so useful also makes them dangerous. Forever chemicals — the catchier name for the class of chemicals known as PFAS, per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances ...
A team of researchers for the first time has found a correlation between the levels of bacteria and fungi, the gut microbiome, in the gastrointestinal tract of children and the amount of common household chemicals found in their home environment. The work, published this month in Environmental Science and Technology Letters, could lead to a better ...
Human exposure to unnecessary and potentially harmful chemicals like PFAS could be significantly reduced if manufacturers added chemicals only when they were truly essential in terms of the health, safety, and functioning of society. That’s the conclusion of a study published in Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, a peer-reviewed journal published by the Royal Society of ...
Laboratory tests conducted nearly 20 years ago that have gone largely unreported found high levels of the toxic fluorinated chemical known as PFAS in several popular supermarket foods. The tests were commissioned by 3M, the giant chemical company that first manufactured the two most notorious members of the PFAS family, PFOS and PFOA. Last year, ...
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