'Millions of Americans are drinking contaminated water - Perfluorinated chemicals that harm the immune system'
David Andrews
Environmental Working Group
Tue, 09 Aug 2016 15:31 UTC
Posted: https:// www.sott.net/article/327536-Millions-of-Americans-are-drinking-contaminated-water-Perfluorinated-chemicals-that-harm-the-immune-system
A series of new, peer-reviewed studies connect the dots from the pollution sources, to drinking water supplies, to women's blood, and bolster earlier findings that these chemicals can harm the immune systems of fetuses exposed in their mothers' wombs. Perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs, are used in Teflon, Scotchgard and hundreds of other products.
A study published recently in Environmental Science & Technology Letters points to military bases, airports, industrial sites and wastewater treatment plants as the major sources of PFCs in drinking water. PFC pollution from industrial facilities has long been known, but the new study found that drinking water contamination, detected by nationwide tests mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency, correlates strongly to military and civilian airports' use of firefighting foams.