[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "PFAS in Foam, Fish, Oysters, Crabs, and my Blood - I believe the Navy has poisoned my blood."

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

PFAS in Foam, Fish, Oysters, Crabs, and my Blood
I believe the Navy has poisoned my blood.

By Pat Elder 
Military Poisons
November 17, 2024

I recently received PFAS blood serum results from Eurofins Environmental Testing.  My blood plasma had a total of 42.2 ng/ml (nanograms per liter, or parts per billion) of the seven PFAS compounds identified by the  National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) in my blood totaled 32.3 ng/ml.

I have eaten lot of contaminated seafood. 

The US average level of PFOS in the blood is 4.25 ng/mL, with 95% of the population having a level of 14.6 ng/mL or less, according to the ATSDR’s PFAS information for Clinicians, 2024. 

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A report by the National Academies of Science, Education and Medicine (National Academies), Guidance on PFAS Exposure, Testing, and Clinical Follow-Up, 2022, advises clinicians to use serum concentrations of the sum of seven PFAS compounds to inform clinical care of exposed patients. Those compounds are: PFOS, PFOA, PFHxS, PFNA, MeFOSAA, PFDA, and PFUnDA.

They say health effects related to PFAS exposure may be expected at 2 ng/ml for the total of the seven compounds and there is an increased risk of adverse effects above 20 ng/ml. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/pfas-in-foam-fish-oysters-crabs-and-my-blood

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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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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