Read the full article by Kelly House (Bridge Michigan).
“In the years since Michigan’s PFAS crisis became public knowledge, widespread contamination has prompted a growing list of ‘do not eat’ advisories in waterways across the state.
But a study published this month in the Journal of Great Lakes Research offers hope that, one day, the fish could be safe to eat again.
The study was conducted by researchers in the former US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development, which the Trump administration has since dismantled amid a broad push to curtail federal oversight and loosen regulations on a host of chemicals, including PFAS.
Using decades’ worth of archived lake trout and walleye samples originally collected to track older pollutants like mercury and PCBs, scientists discovered PFAS levels in Great Lakes fish have declined significantly since the late 2000s, when manufacturers began phasing out once-common compounds like PFOS and PFOA amid growing regulatory pressure.” …