Melanie Benesh

Manufacturers now routinely exploit this GRAS loophole — it’s fast becoming more ‘generally recognized as secret’ instead of ‘generally recognized as safe.'

This isn’t about affordability. This is about maintaining the status quo.

Safe drinking water shouldn’t be a political debate — it’s a fundamental right,

This is a really historic moment. There are many communities that have had PFAS in their water for decades who have been waiting for a long time for this announcement to come out.

In an ideal world, we would have a credible federal regulator that would be taking aggressive action to make sure that the food chemicals that we are exposed to every day, and the foods that we eat, and the foods that we feed our family, are actually safe.

This is really the culmination of state action to drive PFAS out of the marketplace and, particularly, to drive PFAS out of food packaging, where alternatives have existed for a long time.