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--- pfas_pfoa [2026/04/01 00:54] – [Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) including PFOA, PFOS, GenX, Teflon] gary1
+++ pfas_pfoa [2026/07/08 23:48] (current) – [Introduction] gary1
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      * the risks of PTFE / Teflon itself appear to be minimal as long as it is not overheated
      * in 2025, PFOS foam was again noted on Belubula River near Blayney, NSW with levels of PFOS in the foam over 60,000x drinking guidelines, while that in the river was 86x higher than EPA's ecological threshold - farmers use this river for irrigation purposes(([[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-18/contaminated-foam-containing-pfos-returns-to-belubula-river/105613982]]))
+     * in 2026, a study of sparrows found that those in industrial and private military bases such as Melbourne's RAAF Williams-Laverton base, oil and chemical refineries had up to 10x the blood PFAS levels compared to other regions, and that these were being transferred from mothers into their eggs and then from the insects that the young, newly fledged birds were fed while being reared(([[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-09/study-finds-pfas-levels-high-in-young-sparrows-melbourne-west/106892062]])) and a previous study showed that local possums were some of the most contaminated small terrestrial mammals that had been tested anywhere in the world(([[https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/our-world-first-study-found-forever-chemicals-in-australian-possums]]))
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