AP: Communities await first US limits on 'forever chemicals'

Restrictions on harmful "forever chemicals" in drinking water are expected to be proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency after finding they are dangerous in amounts so small as to be undetectable. However, experts say removing them will be very expensive, which most small communities with limited resources will be able to cover.

In a story posted by the Associated Press, Susan Pinney, PhD, of the Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences at the UC College of Medicine said per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAs are should have been better regulated and dealt with once they were first identified.

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