Lack of ‘forever chemicals’ testing could be leaving most victims in the dark

By Rachel Frazin | The Hill | October 19, 2022

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"Sandy Wynn-Stelt had thought her Michigan home was across the street from a Christmas tree farm, but she said in a lawsuit settled earlier this year that it was actually a toxic dump that contaminated her water.

In 2017, the state’s Department of Environmental Quality came to Wynn-Stelt’s house to test her water, a test she believed at the time to be random. The test, however, turned up high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals” because they tend to linger in the environment and human bodies instead of breaking down.

The class of chemicals, of which there are thousands, have been linked to kidney and testicular cancer, as well as thyroid disease."

Topics:

• ChemicalsPFAS
• Environment
• Wildlife
• Remediation
• Health
• Measurement Techniques
• Monitoring Data
• PFAS Uses