For years, the Minnesota Department of Health has been monitoring data on perfluorochemicals (PFCs) in the drinking water in Oakdale, and scientists now say they have confirmed the cause-effect link between how much unfiltered water people drink and how much PFCs are in their system, according to a Star Tribune article by Jim Anderson.
According to Health Department data, PFC levels significantly fell from 2008 to 2010.
From the article:
The numbers had been well above the U.S. average. But they had declined following a mammoth cleanup of groundwater by 3M Co. at sites where PFCs had been legally dumped over decades. The company stopped making the chemical compounds, used in an array of products, in 2002, but they continue to be used by other manufacturers. PFCs are so widely used — in microwave popcorn bags and other food packaging, water-resistant materials, carpet stain preventives, to name a few — that the three most common types are found in more than 98 percent of the U.S. population.
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