[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: Don’t eat deer from near Clark’s Marsh, near former Wurtsmith Air Force Base (MI)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

PFAS poisoning: Don’t eat deer from near Clark’s Marsh

By Sheri McWhirter
Mlive (MI)
November 6, 2023

OSCODA TWP., MI – State hunting regulators and health officials are reminding hunters not to eat venison from deer killed within three miles of Clark’s Marsh in Oscoda Township because of ongoing PFAS pollution.

A state-issued advisory not to eat deer from that area of Iosco County remains in effect because of likely contamination with various harmful per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) in the animals’ livers and muscle tissues.

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The Air Force contaminated Oscoda area surface waters like the marsh by using PFAS-based firefighting foam for years at Wurtsmith before the base closed in 1993. The contamination was discovered by the state in 2010.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2023/11/pfas-poisoning-dont-eat-deer-from-near-clarks-marsh.html

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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
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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