[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Fish limits near Joint Base Cape Cod (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

PFAS advisory: State asks people to limit or not eat fish caught at 5 Cape Cod ponds

By Cynthia McCormick
Cape Cod Times (MA)
November 3, 2021

In their first advisory about consumption of freshwater fish contaminated with PFAS, Massachusetts public health officials Tuesday advised people to limit or exclude fish from five Upper Cape ponds from their diet.

Individuals particularly susceptible to PFAS exposure — children under 12, women of child-bearing age and pregnant and nursing women — were advised not to consume any fish caught in Flax Pond in Bourne, Grews and Jenkins ponds in Falmouth and Johns Pond in Mashpee.

The state Department of Public Health said this group of women and children also were advised not to eat largemouth and smallmouth bass from Mashpee-Wakeby Pond in Mashpee and Sandwich and to limit other species to one meal a week.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2021/11/03/pfas-contaminated-fish-five-cape-cod-freshwater-ponds-dph-warns-of-forever-chemicals/6252328001/

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Lenny Siegel
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