[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, BIOTA: "PFAS is in fish and wildlife. Researchers prowl Michigan for clues."

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PFAS is in fish and wildlife. Researchers prowl Michigan for clues.

Kelly House
Bridge Michigan
February 15, 2021

J.D. Hock’s heart sank in 2018, when the state of Michigan warned it was unsafe to eat deer harvested within a five-mile radius of Clark’s Marsh in Oscoda Township.

For decades, his family had hunted on property just outside the “do not eat” zone. He had just mailed “an insane amount” of venison jerky to his son-in-law, an armed service member in Afghanistan. 
 
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” he thought, wondering whether the care package contained poison.

High levels of the “forever chemicals” in Oscoda Township, the result of firefighting foam used on the now-shuttered Wurtsmith Air Force Base, make the Lake Huron community one of Michigan’s most contaminated sites. Along with deer, state officials warn against eating fish and any other aquatic or semi-aquatic animal that lives in the marsh.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/pfas-fish-and-wildlife-researchers-prowl-michigan-clues

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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