EPA Condemned for Weak Response to Toxic Takeout Containers

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EPA Condemned for Weak Response to Toxic Takeout Containers
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'It's a serious and ongoing threat to public health.'

of PFAS in their containers. You know, like innocent companies do.

This is a strategy that Inhance appears to have used more than once. According to the newspaper, a September EPA report claimed that Inhance's "container walls leached [PFAS] into the contents of the container." Inhance then told the protective agency that it would comply with a review of its fluorination process, but wouldn't cease production. The EPA, per the, didn't "file a lawsuit or alert the public, or press Inhance to halt production" at the time.

"After telling the world there was no PFAS in their containers," Sussman, the lawyer for the coalition, told theIf you can believe it, the water gets even murkier from there. In October 2022, about a month after Inhance's eventual admission, the consumer groups in question reportedly filed a notice of intent to sue, a measure that would give the EPA and Inhance 60 days to take action in response.

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