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Journalist Garret M. Ellison on challenges of reporting on PFAS: “You can’t write a story on every PFAS site, there are too many.” #PFASConference2024

Dana Fath Strande shared her family’s loss of her daughter Amara and their advocacy strategies that led to Minnesota’s ban on PFAS for nonessential uses. “There is no such thing as sides because no one wants to drink toxic water.” #PFASConference2024

Day 2 of #PFASConference2024! Starting off with Rachel Rogers from ATSDR. We need more information about non-water exposures such as diet, dust, air, and soil, and more guidance for breastfeeding parents.

Tobyn McNaughton of Belmont, MI shared her family’s “PFAS Life” - how their lives changed after the discovery of high PFAS levels in their blood from well water. “What happens to the water happens to the people” #PFASConference2024

Having diverse study populations is important! Jesse Goodrich found PFHpA (7-carbon cousin of PFOA) was linked to liver cancer, especially among Latino & Japanese Americans, who are also more likely to have a specific genetic variant. This trend not seen in White participants.

Jennifer Rawlison of Newburgh Clean Water Project noted stark difference between prompt clinical response & intervention for her children’s lead exposure versus lack of clinical knowledge on PFAS. Clinical guidance needs to be accessible, focused & digestible #PFASConference2024

Kevin Elliott from MSU described National Academies 2022 report on clinical guidance, and the need to consider that waiting too long can miss opportunities to take meaningful action. And thanks for the shoutout on our PFAS-REACH guidance!

PFAS-REACH partner Courtney Carignan sharing our pfas-exchange.org resources on PFAS blood testing and medical screening. For info on PFAS blood testing labs: bit.ly/pfas-blood-test #PFASConference2024

.U.S. EPA’s Mark Strynar kicking off Day 3 of #PFASConference2024 with a chemistry lesson on his toolbox of high resolution mass spectrometry approaches to identify releases of unidentified PFAS that industry are not required to disclose.

Hope Grosse and Joanne from Buxmont coalition for safer water describe inadequacies with DoD Restoration Advisory Boards and the impacts of PFAS on their families’ health. #PFASConference2024

So much important remediation info from NC State University’s Detlef Knappe. POET systems with 100s of lbs of GAC are highly effective but off-the-shelf systems often are not. Very imp to monitor emissions from incineration, which vary by temperature & chemical structure #PFASConference2024

This is an important JAMA Viewpoint piece on the ways that clinicians can address PFAS exposures and health effects in patient care. Thanks to the authors for highlighting our PFAS-REACH clinician guidance document, available at: pfas-exchange.org/wp-content/upl…

Incredibly honored to have this opportunity to speak with Senators next week about the urgent need to address PFAS contamination and support the needs of impacted communities. epw.senate.gov/public/index.c…

Thank you Sharon Lerner for attending our Silent Spring Inst gala this week as one of our Rachel Carson Advocacy Award winners. So grateful for all that I've learned from your incredibly well-researched and thoughtful reporting on #PFAS and other failures in our chemical regulations.

Excited to be at the Senate today with Dr Sue Fenton of NC State University to provide testimony to talk about the importance of addressing the many challenges of #PFAS. Starts at 9:30! Live-streaming at: epw.senate.gov/public/index.c…

Thank you Senator Jeff Merkley for hosting today’s Senate hearing on #PFAS exposures and health effects. It’s critically important that we take steps to avoid unnecessary PFAS exposures now and work to develop additional PFAS-free alternatives in the future. Silent Spring Inst

Our new paper in Environmental Health Perspectives found that public water systems with more Hispanic and Black customers were more likely to have unregulated industrial contaminants and to be close to pollution sources.

This is awful and will undermine #EPA's ability to protect public health and the environment. In the field of #PFAS, much of what we know about the range of PFAS compounds and extent of contamination and exposure was uncovered by the extraordinary work of EPA scientists.