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As described in “Environmental Health News” PFAS stands for per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, which contain a strong carbon-fluorine bond that allows them to accumulate over time in the environment and in the bodies of animals and people, posing health risks. PFAS chemicals might also be thought of as “everywhere chemicals,” since they’ve become so common in the products we use every day
PFAS are a group of manmade chemicals used in a vast number of consumer and industrial products. They’re often referred to as “forever chemicals,” because most don’t break down.
Sawyer Loftus reports in the Bangor Daily News how “Onur Apul is a researcher at the University of Maine trying to find a way to destroy PFAS, better known as “forever chemicals..”
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