EPA Region 2 Plans To Expand PFOA Focus, Apply Stricter Safety Level

Propelled by contamination from a persistent perfluorinated chemical (PFC) found in drinking water in a New York community, EPA Region 2 officials are at the beginning stages of an effort to identify other locations with similar drinking water contamination, and will likely apply a non-enforceable health safety level more stringent than the agency’s existing short-term exposure advisory level of 400 parts per trillion (ppt), according to a regional official. In an "exercise of caution," EPA Region 2 will use a...