Read the full article by Gareth McGrath (Star News Online).
“First, the good news.
‘The positive news for the environment and our drinking water is that PFAS levels are much, much lower than they were and the regulations that have been adopted and those in the works should help drop those numbers even more,’ said Dr. Jane Hoppin, principal investigator of the GenX Exposure Study and a member of N.C. State’s Center for Human Health and the Environment.
But, as we all know, there’s always a but.
‘Yet even if people are no longer exposed to them in the levels that they once were, we really still don’t know the health consequences for those who were exposed for an extended period of time,’ Hoppin said.
Since the presence of manmade ‘forever chemical’ − formally known as per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) − was first reported by the StarNews in 2017, health officials have been scrambling to get a handle on how widespread the contamination of these previously unknown substances is and what level of health threats they pose to people who had been unknowingly ingesting them in their water.”…