[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Chesapeake Blue Crab has high concentrations of Covid-19-linked PFBA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chesapeake Blue Crab has high concentrations of PFBA - a substance associated with contracting severe Covid-19
US Navy is likely source of contamination

By Pat Elder
Military Poisons
December 9, 2020

Thanks to Sharon Lerner for her essential writing on PFAS.

Lerner reports that a Danish study found that people with elevated levels of a compound called PFBA, (Per fluoro bu tanoic acid), were more than twice as likely to have a severe form of Covid-19. The research involved 323 patients infected with the coronavirus.

PFBA was developed by 3M. It is used in firefighting foams and a host of military and industrial applications. It passes through the blood quickly, but it builds up in the lungs, which are threatened by Covid. Philippe Grandjean, the principal author of the Danish study, sounded a warning about PFBA, “It’s probably what’s in the lungs that counts because that’s where the big Covid battle is fought,” he said.

Maryland's Blue Crabs are loaded with the stuff, especially crabs caught near military installations that have used aqueous film-forming foams, (AFFF), that contain the toxins.  A Chesapeake Blue Crab was recently found to have 800 ppt of PFBA. It was caught just a few thousand feet across the water from where the firefighting foams were used for many years at the Webster Field Annex of the Patuxent River Naval Air Station.  While a growing chorus of health professionals are warning the public not to consume more than 1 part per trillion of any kind of PFAS in drinking water, there's little attention being given to the number one cause of PFAS poisoning in people - which is eating seafood taken from contaminated waters.


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For the entire blog, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/crabs.html

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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