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I want you to look around your home.
Do you have a nonstick frying pan, a raincoat, dental floss designed to slide easily between your teeth?
All of these items have something in common.
They often contain man-made chemicals called PFAS.
That stands for per- and polyfluoral alkyl substances.
They 're in a lot of stuff that we as humans really like,
like nonstick pans that are really great for frying eggs or raincoats that keep you really dry.
But the same qualities that make them useful also make them really difficult
to break down so they can stick around for a long time in our bodies and the environment.
New Hampshire Public Radio reporter Mara Hoplamazian has spent years reporting on PFAS,
which are also known as forever chemicals.
One reason for that nickname is that they 're super strong,