[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "NJDEP panel recommends lower limit for PFOS"

[Lenny Siegel]

NJDEP panel recommends lower limit for PFOS


By Jenny Wagner
Intelligencer (PA)
November 21, 2017

A New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection advisory panel subcommittee on Tuesday released a draft recommendation to establish a significantly lower limit on the unregulated chemical perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS, in the state’s drinking water.

A New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection advisory panel subcommittee Tuesday released a draft recommendation to establish a significantly lower limit on the unregulated chemical perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS, in the state’s drinking water.

If the draft recommendation is approved, the health-based maximum contaminant limit of 13 parts per trillion would be the lowest in the country, and more than five times lower than the 70-part-per-trillion health advisory level that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers to be safe over a lifetime of consumption.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.theintell.com/news/20171121/njdep-panel-recommends-lower-limit-for-pfos/1

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Lenny Siegel
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