EPA Under Increasing Pressure To Act On PFOA Drinking Water Advisory

摘要

EPA and other federal and state agencies are under escalating pressure to apply stricter drinking water treatment levels to water supplies contaminated with the non-stick chemical perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) amid conflicting health advisory levels EPA and states are currently using, and as more communities have become aware of the chemical's presence in their drinking water. In particular, EPA is being pressed to issue a health advisory for PFOA for long-term exposures to the chemical in drinking water - a measure the agency has long been developing and which will replace a provisional health advisory for short-term exposures that environmentalists and others say falls far short of setting a protective level for the public.