What are the implications for the textiles community?
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) continue to receive increasing scrutiny from the scientific community, the public, the media, and governmental bodies. The class of compounds has been used extensively, including in the textile industry, because of the chemicals’ hydrophobic, oleophobic, and other useful properties. The resistant carbon-fluorine bond in the compounds makes them resilient and difficult to break down. These properties also result in PFAS bioaccumulating in humans and other animals, and persisting for …