Article via the New Hampshire Bulletin
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"Some seafood purchased at a Portsmouth seafood market in May 2022 met an unusual fate.
Instead of getting fried up, three filets each of haddock, salmon, tuna, and cod, three lobster tails, and some shrimp and scallops were transported by researchers to Dartmouth College in Hanover and frozen at negative 20 degrees Celsius. Then, they were tested for PFAS.
The researchers — spanning institutions across the state and the Northeast — found in a study published this spring that the Gulf of Maine seafood had levels of PFAS that could pose health risks to residents considering how much of the protein is consumed in New Hampshire. They observed the highest PFAS concentrations in shrimp and lobster.
The diet staple is just one of many ways that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — the “forever chemicals” better known as PFAS – end up in humans. Almost all Americans have measurable amounts of the synthetic chemicals, of which there are thousands of varieties, in their blood. Even the state’s youngest residents suffer from exposure." Read more
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