Eating just one locally caught freshwater fish could be equivalent to drinking water that’s highly contaminated with “forever chemicals”—or per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—for a month, a recent study has found.
PFAS are invisible man-made chemicals, high levels of which have been linked to health issues including various cancers, reproductive issues, and adverse effects on immune function.
Scientists from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a U.S.-based research and advocacy nonprofit, analyzed U.S. government data derived from 501 samples of fish fillets collected across the United States from 2013 to 2015 under two monitoring programs of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)….