The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just approved a dangerous new pesticide called trifludimoxazin for use on some of America's most common foods, including corn, wheat, oats, soybeans, oranges, apples, peanuts, and almonds. This chemical belongs to a class known as PFAS, or "forever chemicals," because it breaks down into byproducts that can stay in our soil, water, and bodies for years or even decades.

The EPA's own research links trifludimoxazin to thyroid tumors in animal studies, and health advocates warn it is a likely human carcinogen. Despite this, the agency never studied the cancer risk to the farmworkers who apply it or to the families who eat food grown with it. This isn't the first time this chemical has raised alarms: it was pulled from the market once already, back in 2022, after health and environmental groups sued over its original approval. Now it's back, cleared for widespread use again as of June 2026.

The risk doesn't stop at our plates. Trifludimoxazin is reportedly far more potent than dicamba, a weedkiller already infamous for drifting onto neighboring farms and destroying crops it was never meant to touch. Wetlands and the native plants that depend on them sit in the path of runoff too.

We shouldn't have to guess whether the food on our table is safe. The EPA should not have approved a chemical this persistent and this risky without ever studying what it does to the people who grow our food or the people who eat it.

Sign the petition to demand the EPA ban trifludimoxazin now, before this forever chemical spreads any further into our fields, our water, and our food.