She fought to ban PFAS while dying of cancer. Now Minnesota has the nation's strictest law.

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Everyone in the Netherlands has different types of PFAS in their blood, concludes the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in Bilthoven after its own research. In almost all people, the concentration of these chemical substances is above the health-based limit value, which is considered a safe limit. The RIVM examined 1,500 blood samples from all over the Netherlands, which were taken in 2016 and 2017. In follow-up res…

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The Dutch municipalities are calling on the Dutch government to ban PFAS as soon as possible. They do not want to wait for a current EU procedure. Only so-called essential exceptions should be allowed, in which PFAS cannot be replaced. The decision of the Vereniging van Nederlandse Gemeenten (Vereniging van Nederlandse Gemeenten) fell during the annual congress at the end of May. The VNG belongs to all 342 Dutch municipalities, including oversea…