A new study warns that athletes playing sports on artificial turf could become covered in per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, present in the turf.
Researchers from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) conducted a small-scale study of young athletes, as well as their coaches, who played soccer on an artificial turf field. The results showed that three out of four people on the artificial turf had an increase in the amount of PFAS on their skin, while those who played on real grass fields did not have increases in PFAS levels on the skin.
