In the News: Stain-Proof, Water-Proof, PFAS

PFAS is dominating the News as an analysis of popular brand names claiming to be stain or water resist reveals 75% percent of them contain PFAS. An excerpt from article found in “The Guardian” had this to say:

When you have these products indoors, depending on how many PFAS treated products you have, there will be high levels of PFAS in your indoor air.

The chemicals also can also be absorbed through the skin and are a problem for workers in textile factories, where researchers have found high exposure rates.

This from Erika Schreder, a co-author of this study and the Science Director of Toxic Free Future. Toxic Free Future is based in Seattle and you can check them and the work that they do out here.