Agency changes wording on website as Texas-based firm continues manufacture of plastic container barriers
The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly backtracked on a claim that the US has phased out two of the most dangerous Pfas compounds – Pfoa and Pfos.
The EPA has found that
virtually no level of exposure
to either in drinking water is safe, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer
classifies Pfoa
as “carcinogenic to humans” and Pfos as “possibly carcinogenic”. Still, the EPA is allowing Houston-based Inhance to produce containers from which Pfoa
has been found
to leach at high levels into the containers’ contents. The company makes up to 200m barriers annually for plastic containers used across the US economy.
This article was amended on 18 October 2026 to correct Patricia van Ee’s title, and the story previously stated that Inhance manufactures plastic containers. They make the containers’ barriers.

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