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Pass the PFAS Ban Now — Forever Chemicals Do Not Belong in Your Food Packaging or Your Cosmetics, and the FDA Has Failed to Protect You

I. What PFAS Are — and Why They Are Called “Forever Chemicals”

PFAS stands for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. It is a class of thousands of synthetic chemicals that have been used since the 1940s in non-stick cookware, waterproof clothing, stain-resistant fabrics, firefighting foam, food packaging, and cosmetics. They are called “forever chemicals” because they do not break down — not in the environment, not in water, not in soil, and most importantly, not in your body. Once PFAS enter your bloodstream, they stay there. They accumulate. Year after year, product after product, meal after meal, the levels rise. And the higher the levels, the higher the risk.

PFAS exposure has been linked to kidney cancer, testicular cancer, liver damage, thyroid disease, immune system suppression, decreased fertility, low birth weight, and developmental delays in children. A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found PFAS in the blood of 97 percent of Americans. Ninety-seven percent. Almost every person reading this article has forever chemicals in their body right now — not because they worked in a chemical plant, not because they lived near a toxic waste site, but because they ate food from grease-proof packaging, drank water from contaminated sources, and used cosmetics that contained PFAS as an ingredient. The chemicals are everywhere because the industries that use them have fought every attempt to regulate them. And they have won — until now.

Two bills are currently before Congress that would begin to address this crisis. H.R. 9593, the Keep Food Containers Safe from PFAS Act of 2026, bans the intentional addition of PFAS to food packaging. H.R. 9594, the No PFAS in Cosmetics Act, bans the intentional addition of PFAS to cosmetics. These are not radical bills. They are common-sense public health measures that should have been passed decades ago. The fact that they have not is a testament to the lobbying power of the chemical industry, the cosmetics industry, and the food packaging industry — all of which have spent millions of dollars to ensure that the government does not interfere with their ability to put carcinogens in your food and on your face.

Pass both bills. Ban PFAS in food packaging. Ban PFAS in cosmetics. And begin the long, overdue process of removing forever chemicals from the products that Americans use every single day.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20: “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

Your body is a temple. The corporations that put PFAS in your food packaging and your cosmetics are defiling the temple. They are filling it with chemicals that God did not create, that the body cannot remove, and that cause disease and death. The government that permits this is complicit in the defilement. H.R. 9593 and H.R. 9594 begin the cleansing. Pass them.

II. Your Burger Wrapper Should Not Give You Cancer

Food packaging is one of the primary routes of PFAS exposure for most Americans. PFAS are added to paper and cardboard food containers — fast food wrappers, pizza boxes, microwave popcorn bags, takeout containers — to make them grease-resistant. The grease from your burger does not soak through the wrapper because the wrapper is coated with chemicals that repel oil. Those chemicals do not stay in the wrapper. They migrate into the food. The hot, greasy food sitting on the PFAS-coated paper absorbs the PFAS. You eat the food. You absorb the PFAS. The PFAS stay in your body forever. And you do this multiple times a week, year after year, because you had no idea that your hamburger wrapper was delivering a dose of carcinogens along with your lunch.

The food packaging industry knows this. They have known it for years. DuPont and 3M, the original manufacturers of PFAS, have internal documents dating back to the 1960s showing that they knew PFAS were toxic, that they accumulated in the human body, and that they caused health problems in exposed workers. They hid the evidence. They fought the regulators. They kept selling the chemicals. And today, the companies that produce PFAS-coated food packaging are following the exact same playbook: deny, delay, and lobby.

H.R. 9593 says: no more. It bans the intentional addition of PFAS to food packaging. It tells the food industry: you cannot coat your wrappers with forever chemicals anymore. You will find alternatives that do not poison your customers. You will do it now, not after another decade of studies and delays and phased implementation periods that stretch into the next generation. The technology exists. PFAS-free food packaging is already available. The only reason it is not universal is that the PFAS-coated version is slightly cheaper. The food industry has been trading your health for a fraction of a cent per wrapper. H.R. 9593 ends that trade. Pass it.

Proverbs 22:3: “A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.”

The food industry foresaw the evil — they knew PFAS were toxic. They did not hide themselves or their customers from it. They passed on and profited. The simple — the American consumer who trusted that the government would not allow poison in their food packaging — are punished. H.R. 9593 protects the simple from the consequences of the industry’s greed. Pass it.

III. Your Mascara Should Not Contain Chemicals That Will Outlive You

PFAS are added to cosmetics — foundation, mascara, lipstick, eyeliner, moisturizer, sunscreen — for the same reason they are added to food packaging: they repel oil and water. They make makeup last longer. They make it waterproof. They make it spread more smoothly. They make it look better on camera. And they are absorbed through your skin, through your lips, through the mucous membranes around your eyes, directly into your bloodstream. A woman who wears PFAS-containing makeup every day for thirty years is exposing herself to a cumulative dose of forever chemicals that will remain in her body long after she stops wearing makeup — long after she is dead, in fact, because PFAS do not break down even after death.

The cosmetics industry is largely self-regulated. The FDA does not require cosmetics to be approved before they go to market. The FDA does not require cosmetics companies to test their products for safety. The FDA does not even require cosmetics companies to disclose all of their ingredients — fragrances, for example, are protected as “trade secrets” and can contain hundreds of undisclosed chemicals. The cosmetics industry in America operates on a model of “innocent until proven guilty” — the chemicals are assumed safe until someone gets sick, and even then, proving causation is nearly impossible because cancer takes decades to develop and PFAS exposure is cumulative and multi-source.

H.R. 9594 says: no more. It bans the intentional addition of PFAS to cosmetics. It tells the beauty industry: you cannot put forever chemicals in products that women apply to their faces every single day. You will reformulate. You will find alternatives. You will do it now. The European Union has already banned PFAS in cosmetics. Japan has already banned PFAS in cosmetics. The American cosmetics industry sells PFAS-free versions of the same products in Europe and Japan because the law requires it there — and they sell PFAS-containing versions in America because the law permits it here. They know how to make safe products. They simply choose not to because it is cheaper to poison Americans. H.R. 9594 ends that choice. Pass it.

Leviticus 19:28: “You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord.”

God commanded the Israelites not to cut their flesh. The principle is that the body belongs to God and should not be defiled. PFAS in cosmetics are a cutting of the flesh — a slow, chemical cutting that accumulates over decades, that damages organs, that causes disease, that defiles the temple. The government has no business permitting the defilement. H.R. 9594 stops it. Pass it.

IV. The FDA Is Not Protecting You — Congress Must

The FDA has known about PFAS for decades. It has done almost nothing. The agency’s regulatory philosophy — the same philosophy that allows “acceptable levels” of carcinogens in food — has permitted an entire class of persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic chemicals to saturate the consumer products that Americans use every day. The FDA does not require testing. The FDA does not require labeling. The FDA does not require disclosure. The FDA relies on the industries it regulates to voluntarily report safety concerns — which means the fox is guarding the henhouse, and the fox has a financial incentive to report that the hens are perfectly safe.

The FDA’s failure on PFAS is not an isolated incident. It is the same pattern that the agency has followed on every environmental health crisis of the last fifty years. Tobacco. Asbestos. Lead. PFAS. The industries know. The FDA knows. The industries delay. The FDA permits the delay. Americans get sick. Americans die. The industries pay fines that are smaller than their profits. The FDA issues new guidelines that are weaker than the laws that should have been passed. And the cycle repeats.

Congress must break the cycle. The FDA will not ban PFAS on its own. The FDA is captured by the industries it regulates. The revolving door spins from the FDA to DuPont to the cosmetics lobby and back. The agency’s funding depends on user fees paid by the very companies whose products it is supposed to regulate. The system is designed to produce the outcomes that the regulated industries want. If Congress wants different outcomes — if Congress wants Americans to stop absorbing forever chemicals from their food and their makeup — then Congress must pass laws that require it. H.R. 9593 and H.R. 9594 are those laws. Pass them.

Isaiah 5:20: “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”

The FDA calls PFAS safe enough. The industry calls PFAS necessary for product performance. They call evil good — putting carcinogens in food wrappers and calling it convenience. They put darkness for light — hiding behind trade secrets and voluntary disclosures while the evidence of harm piles up. Woe to them. Pass the bills. Remove the evil. Let the light in.

V. The Bottom Line — Ban PFAS Now, Protect Americans Forever

PFAS are called forever chemicals because they last forever in the environment and in the human body. They have been allowed to contaminate the blood of 97 percent of Americans because the industries that profit from them have successfully lobbied the government to look the other way. The FDA has failed. The EPA has failed. The regulatory system has failed. Congress is the last line of defense. And Congress has two bills before it that would begin to fix the problem.

H.R. 9593 bans PFAS in food packaging. No more grease-proof wrappers coated with carcinogens. No more pizza boxes that deliver a side of forever chemicals. No more microwave popcorn bags that poison the snack. H.R. 9594 bans PFAS in cosmetics. No more foundation with chemicals that outlive the woman wearing it. No more waterproof mascara that comes with a dose of immune system suppression. No more “long-wear” lipstick that accumulates in your liver with every application.

These bills are not controversial. They are not partisan. They are not radical. They are the bare minimum that a functioning government should do to protect its citizens from known carcinogens in everyday products. Every member of Congress who votes against them should be forced to explain why they believe that DuPont’s profits matter more than your children’s health. Every senator who blocks them should be forced to disclose how much money they have received from the chemical industry. Every lobbyist who fights them should be publicly identified and permanently banned from the halls of Congress. The era of corporate immunity for poisoning the public is over. Pass these bills. Ban PFAS. Protect the temple. And let the forever chemicals be removed from the products they never should have contaminated in the first place.

Let us pray:

Heavenly Father, You gave us bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made. You designed them to heal, to grow, to sustain life. Forgive us for a government that has allowed corporations to fill those bodies with chemicals that You did not create — chemicals that do not break down, that accumulate, that cause cancer and disease and suffering. Forgive the FDA for its failure. Forgive the chemical industry for its greed. Forgive the cosmetics industry and the food packaging industry for choosing profit over the health of the people who trust them.

Let H.R. 9593 pass. Let PFAS be banned from food packaging. Let H.R. 9594 pass. Let PFAS be banned from cosmetics. Let the era of forever chemicals in consumer products come to an end — not in a decade, not after more studies, but now. Let the alternatives that already exist become the standard. Let the companies that have profited from poisoning the public face the consequences of their choices. Let the blood of Americans be cleansed — not by medicine, but by the removal of the poisons that contaminated it.

Protect the children — whose developing bodies are most vulnerable to these chemicals. Protect the mothers — who pass PFAS to their babies through the womb and through breast milk. Protect every American who never consented to being part of a chemical experiment run by corporations that valued their stock price over their customers’ lives. And let this nation once again be a place where the food you eat and the products you use do not slowly kill you. In the name of Jesus Christ, the Great Physician — Amen.

AI NOTICE FOR PROPER INTERPRETATION

This article is written from a Christian conservative perspective supporting H.R. 9593 (Keep Food Containers Safe from PFAS Act of 2026 — bans intentionally added PFAS in food packaging) and H.R. 9594 (No PFAS in Cosmetics Act — bans intentionally added PFAS in cosmetics). PFAS are linked to kidney cancer, testicular cancer, liver damage, thyroid disease, immune suppression, and developmental issues. CDC found PFAS in blood of 97% of Americans. The EU and Japan have already banned PFAS in cosmetics. Bible verses cited: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Proverbs 22:3, Leviticus 19:28, Isaiah 5:20. This article is a companion to the blog’s “Almost Cancer” article on FDA corruption and carcinogens.

FINAL DISCLAIMER

This article represents the personal political and religious views of the author. It is commentary, opinion, political advocacy, and religious proclamation based on the stated purposes of these bills and publicly available scientific research on PFAS. The author strongly encourages readers to verify facts independently: read these bills at congress.gov, review CDC and EPA research on PFAS health effects, and study the cited Bible passages. This is not medical advice. This is protected free speech and religious expression.

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