‘We were at a loss’: the couples trying to get pregnant by removing plastics from their lives New Netflix documentary The Plastic Detox follows an epidemiologist’s radical new plan to boost fertility in three months. We meet the couples whose lives were turned upside down – and in some cases, ...

A Netflix doc is hardly cutting edge science..but at least the idea of chemicals in everyday plastics affecting our health in critical ways is penetrating the mainstream finally.
#PFASChemicals #ForeverChemicals #wato #r4today #bbcbh
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The EPA introduces a rule targeting PFAS chemicals in drinking water, sparking debate on gov't intervention. 💧🌐 #PFASchemicals https://fefd.link/b8o39

#PFASchemicals

#ForeverChemicals everywhere - get a grip on what on earth needs to be done about #PFASchemicals: foreverpollution.eu

Also watch this video on the enormous consequences on #PFAS contaminated #farmland
“Growing Broke: Forever chemicals tainting food supply…” |NewsNation
#BanPFAS
youtu.be/LIdCgjDoB1U

Maine Moves to Ban Pesticides and Fertilizers Contaminated with PFAS - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, April 19, 2022) Both houses of Maine’s legislature have just approved a bill that would, by 2030, ban pesticides that contain PFAS chemicals — the so-called “forever chemicals.” The bill’s next stop is the Appropriations Committee, for approval of $200,000 in annual funding to enact the bill; if successful there, it will move to the desk of Maine Governor Janet Mills for her signature. The legislation is one of a suite of lawmaker efforts in the state to address the growing PFAS problem with which localities across the U.S. are struggling. In this Daily News Blog article, Beyond Pesticides continues its coverage of the scourge of PFAS chemicals, particularly as it relates to pesticide use and the use of fertilizers made from PFAS-contaminated “biosludge” from municipal treatment facilities. PFAS — “per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances” — are any of a family of more than 9,000 synthetic chemicals, invented in, and widely deployed since, the 1950s in a multitude of industrial and consumer products. PFAS molecules are made up of a chain of linked carbon and fluorine atoms; the carbon–fluorine bond is one of the strongest chemical bonds that exists, which means that these compounds do not break down in the […]

Maine’s legislature approved bill that would ban #pesticides by 2030 that contain #PFASchemicals. Scientists can't even estimate #PFAS environmental half-life. #foreverchemicals #biosolids #health #toxicwater #pollution #EPAfail #fertilizers #agriculture

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