6 Million Americans are drinking TOXIC water-Causing cancer. FDA sleeping.
Happening in so called most developed nation in world. Do not forget that it is 7 month in Flint, Michigan and people do not have drinking water because MAYOR let water supply in LEAD PIPE AND POPULATION WERE EXPOSED TO LEAD.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvard-study-finds-toxic-chemicals-180752669.html?format=embed
By Lisa Rapaport
(Reuters Health) – Drinking water supplies for more than six million Americans contain unsafe levels of industrial chemicals that have been linked to cancer and other serious health problems, a U.S. study suggests.
The chemicals – known as PFASs (for polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances) – are used in products ranging from food wrappers to clothing to nonstick cookware to fire-fighting foams. They have been linked with an increased risk of kidney and testicular cancers, hormone disruption, high cholesterol, and obesity.
“PFASs are a group of persistent manmade chemicals that have been in use since 60 years ago,” said lead study author Xindi Hu, a public health and engineering researcher at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Once these chemicals get into the water, they’re hard to get out, Hu added by email.
“Most current wastewater treatment processes…
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