Makers of 20 PFAS Will Be Ordered to Provide EPA Health Data (2)

Companies making 20 PFAS will receive orders before the end of this year requiring them to provide the EPA information about ways those chemicals may affect human health, the agency’s top chemicals official told a House subcommittee Wednesday.

The required tests will help the Environmental Protection Agency understand more than 2,000 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, said Michal Ilana Freedhoff, the agency’s assistant administrator for chemical safety and pollution prevention.

More data orders will come in the months and years ahead, Freedhoff told the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change. The information will ...