From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Tue, 21 Nov 2017 19:04:13 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] PFAS: "NJDEP panel recommends lower limit for PFOS" |
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. … For the entire article, see http://www.theintell.com/news/20171121/njdep-panel-recommends-lower-limit-for-pfos/1 -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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