EPA Greenlights Fourth PFAS Pesticide Despite Health Warnings

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Trifludimoxazin, the latest PFAS pesticide, would be used on soybeans, oranges, apples, and peanuts that end up on your table.

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What makes PFAS chemicals dangerous? Carbon-fluorine bonds that resist breaking down, potentially lasting CENTURIES in soil and water.

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Studies show 97% of Americans already have PFAS in their blood, while the EPA continues approving more sources of exposure.

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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin told the Senate he was "committed to tackling PFAS pollution" just ONE MONTH before proposing this approval.

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When the EPA tested cyclobutrifluram (another recently approved PFAS pesticide), they found it caused thyroid and liver damage in animals.

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The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture calls PFAS a "major hazard" to farmers, yet the EPA keeps approving them.

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A 2024 study found PFAS already make up 14% of all pesticide active ingredients used in the US - and nearly one-third approved in the last decade.

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The proposed approval of trifludimoxazin would allow it to be combined with another PFAS called saflufenacil, creating mixture pollution.

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A May 2025 report from the Make America Healthy Again commission found pesticides drive chronic disease in children through exposure in the womb and breastmilk.

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The EPA has taken some positive steps, removing 12 PFAS from approved inert ingredients in 2022, but critics say it's not enough.

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As forever chemicals continue entering our food and water, should agricultural benefits outweigh long-term health and environmental consequences?

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