{"id":67255,"date":"2026-09-21T20:43:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67255"},"modified":"2026-09-21T20:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:43:58","slug":"pfas-in-medications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67255","title":{"rendered":"PFAS In Medications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PFAS_In_Medications.jpg\" alt=\"PFAS In Medications\" width=\"370\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PFAS_In_Medications.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PFAS_In_Medications-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you hear &#8220;PFAS,&#8221; you probably think of nonstick cookware, waterproof jackets, or contaminated drinking water. You probably don&#8217;t think of the prescription sitting in your medicine cabinet. Yet fluorinated compounds classified as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are built into a surprisingly wide range of approved pharmaceuticals, often not because they&#8217;re essential to how those medicines treat disease, but because they make the drug easier to formulate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2026\/09\/21\/pfas-containing-medicines-alternatives.aspx\">https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2026\/09\/21\/pfas-containing-medicines-alternatives.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you hear &#8220;PFAS,&#8221; you probably think of nonstick cookware, waterproof jackets, or contaminated drinking water. You probably don&#8217;t think of the prescription sitting in your medicine cabinet. Yet fluorinated compounds classified as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are built into a surprisingly wide range of approved pharmaceuticals, often not because they&#8217;re essential to how &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67255\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PFAS In Medications&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67257,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67255\/revisions\/67257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}