{"id":46544,"date":"2026-02-12T02:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/what-are-pfas-forever-chemicals-and-are-they-bad-for-us\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T02:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:39:14","slug":"what-are-pfas-forever-chemicals-and-are-they-bad-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/what-are-pfas-forever-chemicals-and-are-they-bad-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What are PFAS -&#8216;forever chemicals&#8217;- and are they bad for us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) can be found in many everyday items from cosmetics to raincoats and non-stick pans. They&#8217;ve also been found in food and water &#8211; and even in our bodies. But what exactly are they? And are they dangerous? Scientist Mark Miodownik explores. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/royalsociety.org\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Made by BBC Ideas in partnership with the Royal Society.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-2st5ed-ListContainer e5tfeyi0\">\n<ul role=\"list\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/iplayer\/episode\/m002n2hr\/panorama-the-truth-about-forever-chemicals\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Panorama: The Truth About Forever Chemicals on BBC iPlayer (UK) <\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sounds\/play\/w3ct8txy\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Listen to BBC Inside Science: Where do forever chemicals come from?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Film by Christopher Brooks. Presenter: Mark Miodownik <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">\ud83d\udca1 <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/topics\/cxw2g82zr01t\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Watch more videos at BBC Ideas<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/videos\/c8xye907dg9o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) can be found in many everyday items from cosmetics to raincoats and non-stick pans. They&#8217;ve also been found in food and water &#8211; and even in our bodies. But what exactly are they? And are they dangerous? Scientist Mark Miodownik explores. Made by BBC Ideas in partnership with the Royal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[5293,10539,13694],"class_list":["post-46544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-bad","tag-chemicals","tag-pfas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46546,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46544\/revisions\/46546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}