Food & Wine: Are ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Your Favorite Sparkling Water? Here’s What to Know

"Many brands have PFAS levels of more than 1 part per trillion, exceeding the Environmental Working Group's recommendation.

Another day, another potential toxin in one of your favorite products to worry about. This time, it’s PFAS in sparkling water. 

PFAS, short for per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, are chemicals designed to withstand water, oil, grease, and heat, which may sound ideal for food packaging. Until you learn that these chemicals take at least a century to break down in the human body, and much longer in our environment, and like many man-made substances approved for extensive use, they’re much less safe than we thought. "

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