Source: https://ehsdailyadvisor.blr.com/, June 5, 2020

Environment, health, and safety (EHS) professionals and their organizations should be following the ongoing conversation surrounding per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). We continue to learn more about this large family of chemicals and their impact on both human health and the environment—and PFAS are increasingly coming under more expansive regulatory scrutiny.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) February 2019 PFAS Action Plan, over 4,000 PFAS may have been manufactured and used in a variety of industries around the world since they were first synthesized in the 1940s. The EPA’s Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory lists about 1,200 PFAS, approximately half of which are known to be commercially active within the last decade. Read more.