04/24/2024

EPA labels two forever chemicals commonly found in cookware, carpets, furniture, cosmetics and firefighting foams as "hazardous substances"

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has added two new “forever chemicals” commonly used in making cookware, carpets, furniture and firefighting foams to its danger list. Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), which are part of a larger cluster of forever chemicals known as per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), have been voluntarily phased out by U.S. manufacturers in the […]

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