At the time, Joe Reardon, the committee’s chair, said he was worried that DEQ wanted to loosen regulations for PFBA, PFBS, PFNA, PFHxA and PFHxS. Reardon pointed to a section of North Carolina ...

State environmental officials this week approved temporary groundwater limits for eight forever chemicals, levels that are effective immediately. Jonathan and Stephanie Gordon of Graham requested ...

In 2024, the European Union decided to restrict a new subgroup of PFAS – PFHxA and its related substances – for some uses, including food packaging, cosmetics, and consumer textiles.

Toxic “forever chemicals” have been found in more than one in four public drinking water systems this year in concentrations ...

In September, the European Commission adopted new measures under the EU chemicals legislation to protect human health and the environment by restricting the use of undecafluorohexanoic acid ('PFHxA') ...

According to county documents, Pender’s four granular activated carbon filters do not remove PFHxA. DEQ has proposed a surface water level for the compound of 3,000 ppt and its groundwater IMAC ...

Xiao et al. (2012) identified a significant increase (up to 1,200%) in the wastewater concentrations of perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA) and PFOA at 22 out of 37 wastewater treatment plants. Similar ...