Scientists call on ministers to cut limits for ‘forever chemicals’ in UK tap water

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Scientists call on ministers to cut limits for ‘forever chemicals’ in UK tap water

Acceptable levels of “forever chemicals” in drinking water should be reduced tenfold and a new national chemicals agency created to protect public health, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has told the UK government.

The RSC has produced a map using data published in the Guardian with Watershed Investigations in February, revealing that a “third of the watercourses tested contain medium- or high-risk levels of PFAS, according to the DWI’s own classification system”.

This story first appeared in the following: The Guardian

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