'PFAS cause cancers and birth defects, yet EPA approved hundreds of them through loopholes.'
"If EPA is serious about addressing the PFAS crisis, it must immediately take off the market all PFAS that were approved through misused exemptions."A coalition of more than a dozen environmental groups filed a petition on Thursday with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, demanding the EPA rescind approval for 600 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and immediately remove the products containing the chemicals from the market.
Under TSCA guidelines section five, a pre-manufacture notice is required for the safety review of new chemicals to determine what kind of risk they pose. However, if PMN exemptions are granted—as they were for hundreds of PFAS—it allows the EPA to forgo full section five safety reviews for certain chemical substances.
PFAS are linked to numerous adverse health effects and scientific evidence has found that even low levels of exposure can cause various cancers, immune system suppression, cardiovascular diseases, developmental harms, and liver disease in children.
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