{"id":3713,"date":"2024-04-08T15:21:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2024-04-08T15:26:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:26:06","slug":"pfas-forever-chemicals-are-pervasive-in-water-worldwide-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=3713","title":{"rendered":"PFAS \u2018Forever Chemicals\u2019 Are Pervasive in Water Worldwide, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A global survey found harmful levels even in water samples taken far any obvious source of contamination.<\/p>\n

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They\u2019re in makeup, dental floss and menstrual products. They\u2019re in nonstick pans and takeout food wrappers<\/a>. Same with rain jackets and firefighting equipment, as well as pesticides and artificial turf on sports fields.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re PFAS: a class of man-made chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. They are also called \u201cforever chemicals\u201d because the bonds in their chemical compounds are so strong they don\u2019t break down for hundreds to thousands of years, if at all.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re also in our water.<\/p>\n

A new study of more than 45,000 water samples around the world found that about 31 percent of groundwater samples tested that weren\u2019t near any obvious source of contamination have PFAS levels considered harmful to human health by the Environmental Protection Agency. <\/p>\n

About 16 percent of surface water samples tested, which were also not near any known source, have similarly hazardous PFAS levels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This finding \u201csets off alarm bells,\u201d said Denis O\u2019Carroll, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of New South Wales and one of the authors of the study, which was published on Monday in Nature Geoscience<\/a>. \u201cNot just for PFAS, but also for all the other chemicals that we put out into the environment. We don\u2019t necessarily know their long-term impacts to us or the ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n

High levels of exposure to some PFAS chemicals have been linked<\/a> to higher cholesterol, liver and immune system damage, hypertension and pre-eclampsia during pregnancy, as well as kidney and testicular cancer.<\/p>\n

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A global survey found harmful levels even in water samples taken far any obvious source of contamination.They\u2019re in makeup, dental floss and menstrual products. They\u2019re in nonstick pans and takeout food wrappers. Same with rain jackets and firefighting equipment, as well as pesticides and artificial turf on sports fields.They\u2019re PFAS: a class of man-made chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. They are also called \u201cforever chemicals\u201d because the bonds in their chemical compounds are so strong they don\u2019t break down for hundreds to thousands of years, if at all.They\u2019re also in our water.A new study of more than 45,000 water samples around the world found that about 31 percent of groundwater samples tested that weren\u2019t near any obvious source of contamination have PFAS levels considered harmful to human health by the Environmental Protection Agency. About 16 percent of surface water samples tested, which were also not near any known source, have similarly hazardous PFAS levels.This finding \u201csets off alarm bells,\u201d said Denis O\u2019Carroll, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of New South Wales and one of the authors of the study, which was published on Monday in Nature Geoscience. \u201cNot just for PFAS, but also for all the other chemicals that we put out into the environment. We don\u2019t necessarily know their long-term impacts to us or the ecosystem.\u201dHigh levels of exposure to some PFAS chemicals have been linked to higher cholesterol, liver and immune system damage, hypertension and pre-eclampsia during pregnancy, as well as kidney and testicular cancer.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3715,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3716,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/3716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}