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PFAS, Personal Care Products & Infants
Results of a study published in Environment International suggest that the use of personal care products (PCPs) increases plasma levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) among pregnant women, as well as PFAS levels in the milk of lactating women living in Canada. The data for this study was provided by the Maternal-Infant Research on…
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PFAS & Women’s Health
The results of a community-based longitudinal study that followed over 1000 women from 1999 to 2017 were recently published in the journal Hypertension. With nearly 12,000 person-years of follow-up, women without hypertension at the beginning of the study received annual visits to assess for hypertension, along with baseline measurements of 7 different perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl…