Because of the concerns, eight major chemical companies entered into an agreement called the PFOA Stewardship Program to stop production of certain PFAS in the U.S. But they can still come in through imported products, and U.S. manufacturers continue to make and use other PFAS. The Environment...
Still, without oversight, corporate commitments are not a guarantee, and there's always concern of contamination, PFAS experts said. Gore, for example,said years agothat the company had eliminated PFOA from its materials. But in its testing last year, Toxic-Free Futurefound itin REI Gore-Tex ...
One of the most well-known PFAS used in cookware is Teflon, made with polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE); or, before 2013, with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). Both are types of PFAS, but there are thousands of others. “There could be labels on your cookware that say PFOA free, but the ...
they are present in the blood ofnearly all Americans.Until now, federal regulations on PFAS in consumer products have largely focused on a handful of the older-generation forever chemicals, such as PFOA, or perfluorooctanoic acid. But new state-level laws are targeting all forever chemicals.Consu...