'The EPA is doing the bare minimum it can and that's putting people's health at risk,' said bennettpeer, the policy director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
of water samples taken in nine cities with high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances pollution, the findings of which were published Wednesday.
In seven of the nine cities, higher levels of PFAS were found in water samples when using a"total organic fluorine" test that identifies markers for all known PFAS compounds than when using the EPA test—at concentrations up to 24 times greater. PFAS are a class of synthetic compounds widely called forever chemicals because they don't fully break down—polluting people's bodies and the environment for years on end.at unsafe levels in the drinking water of more than 200 million Americans and detected in 97% of blood and 100% of breast milk samples—to numerous adverse health outcomes, including cancer, reproductive and developmental harms, immune system damage, and other negative effects.
But that's hardly a sufficient response according to researchers such as Graham Peaslee, a professor at the University of Notre Dame who helped conduct the new analysis.
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