PFAS Can Come From Food As Well As Water

Whereas we primarily here about PFAS contaminating drinking water, it’s also know that PFAS travel up food chains. When contaminated water is drank by animals or absorbed by plants, that contamination is then ingested by humans that may eat them.

Greg Barnes reported on an interesting study done researching PFAS in the Yadkin-Pee Dee River in North Carolina. “During a study that began in 2015, the researchers found PFAS in every step of the food chain, from water and sediment to algae, plants, insects, crayfish, mollusks and fish. The researchers also found that the higher up the food chain they looked, the greater the concentration of PFAS.”

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