Like asbestos, PFAS were prized for industrial utility but are now linked to long-term, latent health risks. This complicates ...

New research reveals that tiny amounts of PFAS—widely known as "forever chemicals"—cross the placenta and breast milk to ...

So-called "forever chemicals" could be increasing Americans' risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, a new study says.

What are PFAS? Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals, collectively known as PFAS, consist of more than 12,000 man-made chemical compounds that are "used in a broad array of consumer ...

Long-lasting environmental pollutants known as PFAS, or "forever chemicals," can remain in the environment for up to 1,000 years after being used. A team of researchers has developed a chemical ...

The prevalence of the various per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) — compounds that are notoriously difficult to break down — in the water supply is causing global concern.

“Depending on their chain length or headgroup, PFAS can have very different effects on cells,” Atilla-Gokcumen adds. “We should not be viewing them as one large class of compounds, but really as ...

The first phase of testing found at least one PFAS compound in 80% of beers sampled. The second phase, using multiple cans of each kind of beer, found one or more PFAS in 95% of the samples.

But as the production and use of specific PFAS compounds, namely PFOA and PFOS, has declined, so, too, have the levels found in people’s bloodstreams, by 70% and 85% respectively from 1999 to 2018.

PFAS, as I’ve written before, are the DDT of this era, though perhaps it is more accurate to say they’re worse: Where DDT was a single compound with a single use, PFAS is an umbrella term for ...

For example, concentrations range from 0.0079 ppt (Minnesota; PFOA only) to 400,000 ppt (Michigan; PFHxA only), depending on the PFAS compounds, the nature of the regulation, and the state’s ...