Dr. Steven Lasee, who participated in research on PFAS in pesticides as an EPA research fellow, provided pesticide samples to the EPA, which he had spiked with

Dr. Steven Lasee, who participated in research on PFAS in pesticides as an EPA research fellow, provided pesticide samples to the EPA, which he had spiked with PFAS for testing purposes. The EPA failed to detect PFAS in these samples in two rounds of testing and issued a memo and press release discrediting Lasee’s findings. The EPA's memo and press release contained misleading information and omitted critical data, including results that showed the presence of PFAS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture