EPA proposes new rules to make US drinking water safer from synthetic chemicals that can linger in the human body and lead to serious health problems
The US Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed a new rule that would set the first national drinking water standard for “forever chemicals” that are dangerous to human health. The move could radically affect drinking water for nearly everyone in the United States. The new rule would set the first national drinking water standard for six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS or “forever chemicals.
At the federal level, the US Food and Drug Administration phased out the use of certain PFAS chemicals in 2016. The FDA and manufacturers also agreed in 2020 to phase out some PFAS chemicals from food packaging and other items that came into contact with food. However, FDA monitoring of the environment showed that the chemicals tend to linger, as the “forever” name implies. A replacement that many chemical companies have been using, GenX, may also be problematic, according to the EPA.
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