In June of 2020, 16 specialists on PFAS, together with myself, published an article in Environmental Science & Expertise Letters, offering a scientific rationalization for why a class-based method to the over 9,000 separate however associated PFAS chemical substances is suitable and obligatory. Two scientists, who disclosed that they work for Honeywell Worldwide Inc., a producer of PFAS refrigerant gases and different fluorinated merchandise, lots of that are PFAS, just lately objected to our article.
We (the authors of the unique paper) have issued a rebuttal that covers how they’ve misinterpreted the science and why we disagree with their suggestion that each PFAS must be extensively evaluated earlier than motion to guard public well being and the atmosphere may be taken. This expertise is an instance of a representatives of an organization with a monetary curiosity in PFAS chemical substances making faulty scientific claims that preserve enterprise as traditional, even when on the expense of public and ecological well being.