Getting a handle on the ‘forever chemicals’ in plastics - Scienceline

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Getting a handle on the ‘forever chemicals’ in plastics - Scienceline

This spring, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the country’s first national limit on levels of PFAS chemicals in drinking water. The rule requires utilities to reduce the chemicals in drinking water in the hopes of reducing cancer and illness associated with the compounds. These so-called “forever chemicals” are increasingly entering the national conversation. But what are they doing to our bodies, if anything?  What is a foreve…