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“Daily exposure to cancer-linked ‘forever chemicals’ is expected to cost Americans billions of dollars over the current population’s lifetime, a new study has found.
The associated increase in medical bills and decrease in worker productivity could generate economic losses between $5.52 billion and $62.6 billion, according to the study set for publication in the journal Exposure and Health.
Forever chemicals, also known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), are linked to a variety of illnesses, such as thyroid disease, testicular cancer and kidney cancer.
‘Our findings add to the substantial and still-mounting body of evidence suggesting that exposure to PFAS is harming our health and undermining the economy,’ study co-author Linda Kahn, an assistant professor of pediatrics and population health at NYU Langone Health, said in a statement.” …