Study finds that women exposed to PFAS may experience menopause two years earlier than other women. June 3, 2020 | The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation declined to vacate the transfer of New Mexico’s lawsuit over PFAS contamination at two Air Forces bases. The State argued the case did not belong in the MDL because it involved claims of environmental remediation against the United States, as opposed to products liability claims against the fire-fighting foam…
Plaintiffs, a couple residing in Washington County, Ohio, sued DuPont and Chemours following the husband’s kidney cancer diagnosis. The lawsuit references an earlier class action, settled in 2006, related to groundwater and surface water PFOA contamination resulting from operations at a West Virginia manufacturing facility. As part of the settlement, DuPont allegedly agreed that, if…
Study concludes that the US EPA’s current reference dose could be met by consuming a single radish groin in soils with a PFOA concentration of 9.7 ng/g or a PFOS concentration of 90.5 ng/g. May 30, 2020 | Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Researchers developed a trace analytical methods for PFAS transformation products in plants. Plant samples from contaminated fields contained intermediate transformation products. The leafy parts of plants showed the highest contamination. May 29, 2020 | Journal of Chromatography A