WHO’s Draft PFAS Values Bolster Industry Challenge To EPA Advisories

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) recently released draft drinking water guidelines for the two most-studied PFAS are bolstering chemical industry challenges to EPA’s strict interim drinking water health advisories and the science the agency used for setting them though environmentalists are blasting the WHO document as flawed. The American Chemistry Council (ACC), which is suing EPA over its advisories, says it is looking to WHO’s proposed guideline levels for two per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) -- which are much weaker...