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Currently, there are around 200 pesticide ingredients that are currently registered which qualify as PFAS chemicals. This is especially dangerous to our vulnerable pollinator populations as a recently published study (LINK?) showed that exposure to an extremely small concentrations of PFAS can stop all brood rearing, effectively killing the colony.

PFAS are also present in the containers which pesticides are stored in, where they eventually leach into the product. About 20% of pesticides are stored in these fluorinated plastic containers which we're concerned with.

Petition: FDA Must Stop Allowing Harmful PFAS in our Food

Today, a group of health, environmental, and consumer organizations sent a formal petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban all PFAS (per- and polyfluorinated a…

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces fluorinated polyethylene petition filing

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Petition: FDA Must Stop Allowing Harmful PFAS in our Food

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces fluorinated polyethylene petition filing