[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Drinking Water For 13.8 Million People Tainted By Unsafe Levels Of PFCs "

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Drinking Water For 13.8 Million People Tainted By Unsafe Levels Of PFCs 

By Bill Walker and David Andrews
Environmental Working Group
May 23, 2016
 

Drinking water supplies serving more than 13.8 million Americans may be contaminated with two perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs, at levels higher than the Environmental Protection Agency now deems safe, according to an EWG analysis of EPA test data.

Since 2013, an EPA-mandated testing program has detected elevated levels of the chemicals in 55 public water systems in 20 states plus two Pacific island territories. Those systems had at least one sample contaminated with either one of or both of the two PFCs at an amount greater than the new lifetime health advisory level announced this week by EPA

The agency’s new health advisory for the combined level of chemicals PFOA and PFOS in drinking water is 70 parts per trillion – about a drop of water in 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools. EPA said that at this level or below, the chemicals are “not expected to result in adverse health effects over a lifetime of exposure.”

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For the entire blog, see
http://www.ewg.org/enviroblog/2016/05/drinking-water-138-million-people-tainted-unsafe-levels-pfcs

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Lenny Siegel
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