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      EU still has functioning science.

      CSIRO in Australia doesn’t currently have any ideological reasons not to investigate either, but it’s been so stripped bare over the last 25 years that it really can’t.

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      Florinated plastic makes the best containers for difficult chemicals like pesticides.

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        Perdue Farms acknowledged that its 300-acre Salisbury, Maryland, operation is polluting local waters, but the chemicals’ sources have not been confirmed. It appears the Pfas is in part also coming from some combination of sludge used as fertilizer and pesticides, attorneys for plaintiffs say.