Scientist Says ATSDR Study Underlines Gulf In PFAS Toxicity Findings

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s (ATSDR) decision to finalize risk levels for key per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) much more stringent than EPA’s figures shows the difficulty of finding consensus on safe exposure levels to even a few of the thousands of perfluorinated chemicals, a scientist says. ATSDR’s May 5 final toxicological report on PFAS preserved minimal risk levels (MRLs) for several chemicals that are as much as 10 times as strict as EPA’s exposure limits for...