"Communities have suffered from exposure to the permanent chemical for far too long," EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan said in an agency news release. The actions announced today will increase transparency and move EPA to aggressively address this pollution, as outlined in the Agency's PFAS strategic roadmap.". "Under this proposed rule, EPA will help protect communities from PFAS and seek to hold polluters accountable for their actions."

Over the past decade, chemical manufacturers have voluntarily discontinued production of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid and perfluorooctanoic acid. At the federal level, the Food and Drug Administration phased out the use of certain PFAS chemical in 2016. The FDA and manufacturers agreed in 2020 to phase out some PFAS chemical in food packaging and other items that come into contact with food. However, environmental monitoring by the US Food and Drug Administration has shown that these chemical often persist.

Tests by the nonprofit NonToxic Future found that 74 percent of imported products still contained older PFAS chemical.

The chemical migrate easily into the air, dust, food, soil, and water. People can also be exposed to them through food packaging and industrial work.

High levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate were also found at military bases in the country. The Defense Department says it has spent more than $1.5 billion on PFAS-related research and cleanup efforts.

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