Posted on 05.11.23

Many soft contact lenses in US made up of PFAS, research suggests

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, May 9, 2023
By: Tom Perkins

Many soft contact lenses in the US are largely made up of compounds called fluoropolymers that are by definition PFAS “forever chemicals”, new research suggests.

Testing of 18 popular kinds of contact lenses found extremely high levels of organic fluorine, a marker of PFAS, in each. Read more.

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