How to Reduce PFAS exposure

How to Reduce PFAS exposure

The PFAS Reduction Solution Generator provides clear direction on what YOU CAN DO to REDUCE YOUR PFAS EXPOSURE.

You can’t get rid of it entirely but there are several things you can do to reduce how quickly it enters, and accumulates, in your body.

PFAS is everywhere and including throughout your home.  

You can’t get rid of it entirely but there are several things you can do to reduce how quickly it enters, and accumulates, in your body.

PFAS contaminated home water touches all aspects of your everyday life.  

  1. You drink it,
  2. You bath/shower in it,
  3. You cook with it,
  4. You wash your dishes with it,
  5. You was your clothes/towels/sheets in it,
  6. You clean your home with it.

Filtering your home water has the single biggest impact to reducing your exposure. 
Sometimes it doesn’t make sense to get a “whole home water filtering system”.  For example if you rent, or simply can’t afford to at this time.  In that case you can still filter parts of your home water use like filtering your drinking water only, or filtering your drinking water AND your cooking water.  PFAS accumulates in your body so do whatever you can at this time to reduce the pace at which it enters your body.

The second biggest impact to reducing your exposure is replacing your cookware and food storage containers with non-PFAS alternatives.
Non-stick pots/pans and food storage are a significant exposure source.  If you are like most of us, pots and pans are kept and used for a VERY long time.  As you use them, the non-stick coating (Teflon (PFAS) based) gets scratched and nicked.  That increases the transferal of PFAS to your food while cooking.

PFAS is also in many of your home cleaning products.
Consider replacing them with non-PFAS alternatives.