Scientists with the Environmental Working Group have found that a single serving of locally caught freshwater fish could be on par with consuming a month’s worth of drinking water containing elevated levels of a notorious PFAS slated for EPA regulation. Furthermore, consuming that fish only 12 times per year could, the scientists said, lead to more than triple amounts of the chemical PFOS in most people across the United States.
Published Tuesday in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Research, the findings offer a grim look at how contaminated some parts of the food chain are with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. In particular they zero in on PFOS, a compound linked to health impacts including cancer and kidney and liver disease.
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