Kenny Stancil is senior researcher at the Revolving Door Project and a former staff writer for Common Dreams.
The World Health Organization 's draft drinking water guidelines for two ' forever chemicals ' reveal a 'striking and inappropriate disregard of the best available science' and must be 'extensively revised' to adequately protect public health . So wrote former U.S. government scientists Betsy Southerland and Linda Birnbaum in an article published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology.
exposure to numerous adverse health outcomes, including cancer, reproductive and developmental harms, immune system damage, and other negative effects. The substances—used in dozens of everyday household products, including ostensibly 'green' and 'nontoxic' children's items, as well as firefighting foam—have been detected in the blood of 97% of Americans and in 100% of breast milk samples.
compounds that can be reliably measured, though this is a fraught topic. The WHO's proposed limits on PFOS and PFOA are 25 times higher than those put forth last month by the U.S. EPA, and such a significant gap could hinder federal and state efforts to better regulate the nation's drinking water.
with multiple health effects, including immune effects, increased cholesterol, liver, and thyroid problems, reproductive and developmental harm, and multiple types of cancer.' In addition to failing to 'take into account the overwhelming global scientific evidence of serious health effects in epidemiological studies,' the WHO's guidelines 'misrepresent the effectiveness of affordable, readily available treatment technology,' Southerland and Birnbaum argued.
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