California advances bill to ban toxic ‘forever chemicals’ from cleaners

Household and industrial cleaning products sold in California may soon be free of the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS. Today the California Assembly voted in favor of a first-in-the-nation bill to ban PFAS from those products.

Assembly Bill 727, authored by Assembly member Dr. Akilah Weber (D-La Mesa), would make California the first state to ban PFAS chemicals in household, industrial and institutional cleaners. 

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