The EPA would have one year to designate the compounds as hazardous, a move that would tee up the process to clean contaminated sites across the country, and five years to decide whether other compounds should join the hazardous substances list.
The bill would also limit industrial discharges of PFAS, set up a grant program to help water utilities treat tainted water, and take a host of other actions to address existing PFAS contamination and prevent new contamination.
It is near-identical to one Dingell introduced last year with more than 60 co-sponsors that passed through the House in January 2020 before dying in the Senate.
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After a report about finding arsenic, lead, and mercury in many baby food manufacturers, the Food and Drug Administration plans to propose limiting these toxic heavy metals.
Although the FDA has made and allowed levels of inorganic arsenic in bottled water, it does not set metals in toddler and baby food. Other than arsenic in rice cereal that started last year.
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They admit that people want zero toxic elements in baby food eaten by babies and young children. But in truth, such elements as arsenic, lead, and mercury occur in our air, water, and soil; there are limits to how these levels can be.
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Two members of Congress from Michigan re-introduced bipartisan legislation Tuesday to set national drinking water standards for two PFAS chemicals. WAMC’s Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Allison Dunne says New Yorkers are watching closely.
Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Dingell and Republican Congressman Fred Upton authored the PFAS Action Act of 2021 to create national drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS. Upton says the legislation would require the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to establish standards for the two “forever chemicals” within two years.
“And what this legislation intends to do is to get EPA on our side. We need a partner,” Upton says. “We need a partner that can battle this, to identify those hot spots, to work with companies across the nation, to inform consumers and to take the meaningful steps of actually cleaning up where there’s contaminated sites.”
FDA to propose limits on arsenic and lead in baby food By Kate Gibson Toxic heavy metals in popular baby foods
The Food and Drug Administration plans to propose limits on arsenic, lead and mercury in baby food, with the agency taking action two months after a congressional report found products from several of the country s largest manufacturers tainted with toxic heavy metals.
While the FDA has established acceptable levels of inorganic arsenic in bottled water, it doesn t regulate metals in infant and toddler food other than, starting last year, arsenic in rice cereal. We recognize that Americans want zero toxic elements in the foods eaten by their babies and young children. In reality, because these elements occur in our air, water and soil, there are limits to how low these levels can be, the agency stated. The FDA s goal, therefore, is to reduce the levels of arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury in these foods to the greatest extent possi