US Food and Drug Administration Rejects Petition To Set PFAS Limits In Food

美国食品药品监督管理局驳回关于在食品中设定PFAS限制的申请

来源: theguardian.com | 主题: Government | 评论: 15

时间: on Thursday July 09, 2026 @12:00AM

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected a legal petition demanding it set limits on toxic Pfas "forever chemicals" in food , marking another setback for public health advocates' push to limit exposures to the dangerous compounds. The agency is refusing to set limits despite a growing body of science and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finding food is the biggest source of Pfas exposure. Testing has found the levels of Pfas in single servings of some contaminated foods to be equivalent to drinking many glasses of contaminated water. While regulators have focused on reining in Pfas in water, the chemicals are widely used throughout the food system, and there was hope that the agency under Robert F Kennedy Jr would take

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