Public wastewater systems throughout the state, including those in Salem and Eugene, offer biosolids to farmers to fertilize fields.

As the new Minister of Food and Agriculture, he faces the daunting task of addressing the challenges facing the sector. The Daily Graphic is sure that as the longest-serving Minority-ranking ...

Other studies have pointed to concerns about PFAS exposure among pregnant women. For instance, one group of researchers discovered PFAS in maternal serum, cord serum, and breast milk. Plus, the ...

Exposure to PFAS has been linked to various serious health issues, including cancer, kidney disease, liver problems, immune disorders, and congenital disabilities. While these compounds are ...

Australia needs to prevent the introduction of more "forever chemicals" amid warnings it is becoming increasingly difficult to deal with the contaminants already in the environment.

It noted that these phthalates usually end up in our food through packaging but also from exposure to "plastic in ... took effect in the state, banning PFAS chemicals from being added to 11 ...

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a draft risk assessment Wednesday about the health impacts of PFAS chemicals in sludge applied to farmland, stating that perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl ...

“PFAS chemicals aren’t acutely toxic,” Kah says; any health effects will appear over time, making it hard to link exposure to a single event, or even a single type of PFAS out of the ...

PFAS disrupt the endocrine system and lipid metabolism and are listed as Group 1 carcinogens (possibly carcinogenic to humans) by the International Agency for Research on Cancers. A recent study ...

Such houses usually have three or four bedrooms. A barn is another popular type of agricultural building. The structure can shelter livestock or livestock feeds such as hay and grain and store ...

And while Wimber said she can’t be sure her animals’ health problems have anything to do with PFAS-tinged tap water, she was concerned to learn scientists have linked exposure to the chemicals ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, researchers found that PFAS-contaminated water was associated with up to a 33% increase in the ...