Study Warns of Volunteer Firefighters’ Levels of ‘Forever Chemicals’ May 5, 2021
Volunteer firefighters who comprise more than 65 percent of the U.S. fire service have higher levels of “forever chemicals” in their bodies than the general public.
A Rutgers study, which was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, compared the levels of nine per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the blood of volunteer firefighters against levels in the general population.
The researchers found that the levels of two of the chemicals studied perfluorododecanoic acid (PFDoA) and perfluorodecanoic acid (PFDA) were higher in volunteer firefighters. They found PFDoA levels in 80 percent of the firefighters, but little in the general public.
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