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High levels of toxic PFAS chemicals found in Australia’s drinking water

A recent Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) report on “forever chemicals” in drinking water across Australia’s eastern seaboard and further afield shows a large section of the population has been exposed to ...

You can be exposed to PFAS through food, water, even swimming in lakes – new maps show how risk from ‘forever chemicals’ varies

Drinking water isn’t the only way people are exposed to PFAS today.
The Conversation

Australia has banned 3 ‘forever chemicals’ – but Europe wants to ban all 14,000 as a precaution

Bhavna Middha receives funding from the Australian Research Council through the Discovery Early Career Research Award( ARC DECRA) Ralph Horne receives funding from The Australian Research Council as a ...
The National Law Review

AICIS Will Require Information on 522 PFAS Imported or Manufactured in Australia

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Southern Highlands students develop technology to help detect PFAS in grocery items

When a group of high school students learnt that elevated levels of PFAS were detected in their local river, they became worried. The five senior students from Bowral High School in the NSW Southern ...