Spraying pesticide at grape vineyard in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Some of the United States’ most widely used food pesticides are contaminated with “potentially dangerous” levels of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals”, new testing of the products finds.
The Environmental Protection Agency has previously been silent on PFAS in food pesticides, even as it found the chemicals in non-food crop products. The potential for millions of acres of contaminated food cropland demands swifter and stronger regulatory action, the paper’s authors say.
“I can’t imagine anything that could make these products any more dangerous than they already are, but apparently my imagination […]
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