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Rainwater everywhere on Earth unsafe to drink due to ‘forever chemicals’
| Based on the latest US guidelines for PFOA in drinking water, rainwater everywhere would be judged unsafe to drink.
Although in the industrial world we don’t often drink rainwater, many people around the world expect it to be safe to drink and it supplies many of our drinking water sources.
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/08/04/rainwater-everywhere-on-earth-unsafe-to-drink-due-to-forever-chemicals-study-finds
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| Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large family of human-made chemicals that don’t occur in nature. They are known as ‘forever chemicals’ because they don’t break down in the environment.
Safe guideline levels for some of these forever chemicals have dropped dramatically over the last two decades due to new insights into their toxicity.
Researchers at the University of Stockholm have found them in rainwater in most locations on the planet - including Antarctica.