The Partial Observer by Jonathan Sharp

Vets Could Benefit from VET PFAS Act

By the early 1970s, U.S. military bases began heavily employing aqueous film-forming foam for firefighter training and quelling hydrocarbon fuel fires. The foam was the result of a collaboration between the Navy’s Research Lab and the 3M chemical corporation, which added per/polyfluoroalkyl substances to its composition for their formidable surfactant properties.
PFAS are a class of over 14,700 artificial compounds commonly called “forever chemicals” because their durable molecular bonds prevent natural decomposition. Of these thousands of subtypes, the ones used in fluorinated firefighting foams were PFOA and PFOS, which were also present in consumer products like Teflon and Scotch Guard.