The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) recently announced they have identified communities to be a part of assessments to examine human exposure to per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
The communities are near current or former military installations. The assessments are expected to begin in 2019 and continue through 2020 and are laying the groundwork for CDC and ATSDR’s future multisite health study that will look at the relationship between PFAS exposure and health outcomes.
Scientists are still learning about the health effects of exposure to PFAS. Some studies
