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    Risk of tap water exposure to toxic PFAS chemicals higher in Southern California

    by Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times Jul 14, 2023 4 minutes
    Nearly 50% of the nation’ s tap water is estimated to have at least one type of PFAS, a group of harmful“ forever chemicals.”.

    Tap water in urban areas of Southern and Central California appears more likely to be contaminated by PFAS "forever chemicals" than drinking water in many other regions of the nation, although rural Californians are far less likely to suffer similar exposure, according to new research by the U.S. Geological Survey.

    The newly released study is the latest to examine the prevalence of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances — a vast group of manufactured chemicals that are drawing increasing scrutiny for their health risks, as well as their widespread prevalence in food, water, soil, air and work environments.

    In what is considered to be the nation's first large-scale analysis of PFAS in tap water from private wells and public water supplies, researchers estimated that at least 45%

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