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“Local educational and grassroots efforts to raise awareness about the dangers of consuming PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, seem to be paying off. According to new research, Fayetteville area residents who enrolled in a N.C. State study testing the levels of toxic forever chemicals in their blood had lower levels in 2023 than two years prior.
The N.C. State GenX Exposure Study, which began in November 2017, seeks to measure exposure to GenX and other PFAS by taking blood samples from three communities in the Cape Fear River Basin: Fayetteville, Pittsboro and the Lower Cape Fear, which includes New Hanover and Brunswick counties. The study’s lead researcher, Jane Hoppin, presented the research results at a community meeting in Gray’s Creek on Sept. 17.
‘In 2017, we started in Wilmington because people have found out that there was GenX in their water, and they had been drinking water that basically contained Teflon products for over 40 years,’ Hoppin said.”…