New studies have found that agricultural products growing in family gardens around the PFAS plant in North Carolina contain dangerous chemicals, which provides more evidence, indicating that food is a way to lead to these compounds that may be ignored, especially in pollution. When the person grows nearby.

The author of the study said that the survey results show that many pollution caused by air emissions has increasingly indicated that this is the source of underestimation of PFAS pollution.

The PFA of all 53 samples inspected by the papers of peer review was found. The sample was from the five gardens from 2013-2019 in the five gardens from 2013-2019 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Planting is owned by chemical giant chemical companies.

Detlef Knappe, a researcher and person at the North Carolina State University, said: "In some communities, other exposure routes other than drinking water may be important and may be ignored."

CHEMOURS pointed out in a statement that the research covers a small geographical area that grows before the company has installed some air pollution control.

PFA is a class of about 16,000 compounds to make the product have water resistance, stains and calories. They are called "forever chemicals" because they will not decompose naturally and are found to accumulate among humans. These chemicals are related to cancer, congenital defects, liver disease, thyroid disease, number of sperm, and a series of other serious health problems.

Although regulatory and most scientific review have been concentrated in human contact with chemicals in water, more and more foods are increasingly believed that food is the main intake.

The Food and Drug Administration monitor PFA in the annual testing and rarely find chemicals. But independent researchers criticized the agency's method, and they aims to make it look like that food pollution to PFA is not as polluted.

Critics said that the agency defines the height of unreasonable minimum detection level thresholds. Therefore, even if there is a potential danger of PFA in food, the FDA can say that it has not detected anything. In 2018, the agency discovered the PFA of 108 kinds of agricultural products near the chemical factory of North Carolina, but later changed its method. Then, it released the "revision" data that shows only 36 polluting products, which since then faded the risk of PFA in food.

Napp said that this new study cannot concludes the more extensive food supply, only food supply near the pollutants.

The level of certain chemicals found in the study constitutes a health threat. For example, a child with only 10 tested gardens will consume Genx level. Genx is a common PFAS compound produced on a nearby chemical plant. water.

Adults must eat about four times the blueberry to reach the same level of pollution, but the problem may be worse, because people usually eat more fruits and vegetables, not such estimates.

In addition, compounds found at the highest level have no health risk data.

"We cannot capture real risks ... this shows urgent need-we need this toxic data."

The levels of fruits and vegetables (such as strawberries, tomatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, blueberries and blackberries) grow on plants show higher levels than starchy agricultural products (such as corn), because PFA is attracted to the water by PFAS. Tree fruits, including water -rich fruits, usually show a lower level, because chemicals must be further traveled to enter the fruit.

The garden in the study is largely watering with rainwater instead of groundwater. Generally, higher levels of levels are found, which indicates that air pollution should be blamed on air.

When the company sends PFAS waste out of the air, it eventually rains or lands on the ground, which may be more than hundreds of miles away, but the number of higher number of pollution sources is increased. Because chemicals may take thousands of years to decompose, they accumulate in the soil and can be absorbed by grain crops.

The level of decline is usually reduced, and Knappe can theoretically attribute to the chemical level of pollution control in 2013. In its statement, CHEMOURS pointed out that it installed more powerful air emissions control in 2020, thereby reducing 99 % emissions, but the agricultural products studied were reduced. Essence

Nevertheless, the 2023 test conducted by the guardian's Knappe showed that the PFAS level outside the factory is still higher than the regulatory agency, and claims that Chemours claims.