[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "A new study at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove [PA] looks at the potential link between "forever chemicals, " or PFAS, and disease"

[Lenny Siegel]

Study looks at potential link between ‘forever chemicals' and disease at former Naval Air Station
A new study at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove looks at the potential link between "forever chemicals," or PFAS, and disease

By Lucy Bustamante
NBC 10 News (Philadelphia, PA) 
May 11, 2024

Air Force veteran Joe McGrath served on Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove for 34 years.

“I started as a reservist in 1973,” McGrath told NBC10. “The writing was on the wall that the base was going to close.”

Most of the base ceased operations in 2011. That same year, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency confirmed toxic chemicals were in the site’s groundwater and eventually in the drinking water supply for the base and surrounding neighborhoods.

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McGrath enrolled in a CDC study where researchers are analyzing which diseases correlate to PFAS levels in a person’s blood. McGrath’s PFAS levels are 384 nanograms per milliliter. To put that in perspective, the National Institute of Health has said “there is an increased risk of adverse effects above 20 nanograms.”

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For the entire story, see
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/study-looks-at-potential-link-between-forever-chemicals-and-disease-at-former-naval-air-station/3855649/

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Lenny Siegel
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