Industries Urge California To Set PFAS Health Goals With Non-Cancer Data

Industry groups are urging California regulators to use non-cancer health end points to set first-time drinking water public health goals (PHGs) for two high-profile per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), arguing there are not any acceptable cancer studies to justify the stringency of the state’s recent proposal. California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) “offers no plausible biological basis” for concluding that perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) or perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) “cause cancer and makes unnecessary or overly conservative assumptions that are...