Many soft contact lenses in the US are largely made up of compounds called fluoropolymers that are by definition PFAS “forever chemicals”, new research suggests. Testing of 18 popular kinds of contact lenses found extremely high levels of organic fluorine, a marker of PFAS, in each.
“You could consider [the lenses] almost pure PFAS,” said Scott Belcher (Project 3), a North Carolina State University researcher and scientific adviser on the contact lens testing. Read more HERE.