We heard at the Town Council meeting last week that PFAS regulations will require additional cost to mitigate yet, PFAS is still prevalent and not yet stopped being produced. This article helps to confirm the extensive spread of PFAS in our environment.
"Some of the United States’ most widely used food pesticides are contaminated with “potentially dangerous” levels of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals”, new testing of the products finds.The Environmental Protection Agency has previously been silent on PFAS in food pesticides, even as it found the chemicals in non-food crop products. The potential for millions of acres of contaminated food cropland demands swifter and stronger regulatory action, the paper’s authors say.“I can’t imagine anything that could make these products any more dangerous than they already are, but apparently my imagination isn’t big enough,” said Nathan Donley, environmental health science director at the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), which co-authored the study. “The EPA has to take control of this situation and remove pesticide products that are contaminated with these extremely dangerous, persistent chemicals.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/07/food-pesticides-toxic-forever-chemicals-pfas
PFAS at the Town Council meeting skip to 1:51:00 of the recording to view
PFAS at the Town Council meeting skip to 1:51:00 of the recording to view
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