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Pfas. These especially present a risk because even at low doses they can impact children’s hormones at a key stage of development, causing developmental, reproductive, neurological and other health harms immediately, or later
Pfas. The chemicals are highly mobile and volatile, meaning they easily move through the environment, including from the ground into the air. Children are especially at risk to the chemicals’ health effects because their bodies
risks; [proposed](https://www.edf.org/media/trump-epa-proposal-lowballs-risk-cancer-causing-formaldehyde) that a safe level of exposure of the human carcinogen, formaldehyde, exists; and elected [not to regulate](https://toxicfreefuture.org/blog/epa-sides-with-chemical-industry-on-toxic-phthalates-putting-corporate-interests-ahead-of-families/) endocrine-disrupting chemicals, known as phthalates, in consumer products
health outcomes, including certain types of cancer. Eliminating all sources of PFAS in your life would be impossible, according to one report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. But it is worthwhile
risk. Pfas are ubiquitous in the environment and estimated to be contaminating drinking water for [more than 200 million people](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/20/pfas-us-drinking-water-tap) across the US. At the Monday press conference, EPA administrator Lee Zeldin
risks of Pfas, the greater the health, economic and environmental burdens will become,” the MPs warned. Bentham’s Pfas contamination is on an industrial scale, a legacy of decades of production of firefighting foam