{"id":15710,"date":"2021-01-15T18:37:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T23:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/?p=15710"},"modified":"2021-08-31T16:58:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T20:58:49","slug":"all-nonessential-pfas-should-be-phased-out-scientists-advise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/all-nonessential-pfas-should-be-phased-out-scientists-advise\/","title":{"rendered":"All Nonessential PFAS Should Be Phased Out, Scientists Advise"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15713\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15713\" style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-third_column wp-image-15713\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Lohmann-nonessential-image-364x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Lohmann-nonessential-image-364x257.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Lohmann-nonessential-image-188x133.jpg 188w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Lohmann-nonessential-image-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Lohmann-nonessential-image-500x353.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/Lohmann-nonessential-image.jpg 522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: Adam Glanzman\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A team of scientists, including STEEP director Dr. Rainer Lohmann, published another article discussing the high persistence of PFAS and further urge all nonessential use to be phased out. They state that the continual release of PFAS will result in greater probability of unknown adverse effects, which are likely to be irreversible<\/p>\n<p>The article is the fourth paper published since 2019 by the Global PFAS Science Panel \u2014 an international partnership among academic researchers, regulatory scientists and policy analysts dedicated to enhancing understanding of PFAS and to protecting human and environmental health from their potentially adverse effects.&nbsp;The work appears in the journal Environmental Science: Processes &#038; Impacts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/pfas-project\/all-nonessential-pfas-should-be-phased-out-scientists-advise?context=search&#038;index=0\">Read full story<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists, including STEEP director Dr. Rainer Lohmann, published another article discussing the high persistence of PFAS and further urge all nonessential use to be phased out. They state that the continual release of PFAS will result in greater probability of unknown adverse effects, which are likely to be irreversible <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002,"featured_media":15713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15719,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15710\/revisions\/15719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}