The latest scare PFAS! Alarmism and hysteria! This seems to highly speculative science! These pseudo scientists did not take samples of water from prisons!
This "research" is a hit job spread by the University of California!
Plastophobia is a serious disorder! Please seek medical help immediately!
How ridiculous is this one! Probably, many incarcerated individuals drink about the same water as the rest of us unless the prison is e.g. far off any urban area. If the prison is far off any urban area, that water supply might even be better.
This moronic article even implies that the prison staff uses other water and are not exposed to PFAS!
"Key takeaways
- PFAS are a class of nonbiodegradable chemicals used in countless products that escape into the environment and bioaccumulate, contributing to numerous health problems.
- A new paper finds that 47% of America’s carceral facilities are in watersheds that are likely contaminated with PFAS, while 5% of the facilities are in watersheds already known to carry dangerously high levels of PFAS.
- Incarcerated populations have little ability to purify toxic drinking water and, because they are generally already in worse health than the free population, are more vulnerable to its health impacts.
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From the abstract:
"Objectives. To assess the US incarcerated population’s risk of exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs).
Methods. We assessed how many of the 6118 US carceral facilities were located in the same hydrologic unit code watershed boundaries as known or likely locations of PFAS contamination. We conducted geospatial analyses on data aggregated from Environmental Protection Agency databases and a PFAS site tracker in 2022 to model the hydrologically feasible known and presumptive PFAS contamination sites for nearly 2 million incarcerated people.
Results. Findings indicate that 5% (∼310) of US carceral facilities have at least 1 known source of PFAS contamination in the same watershed boundary and that it is at a higher elevation than the facility; also 47% (∼2285) have at least 1 presumptive source. A minimum of 990 000 people are incarcerated in these facilities, including at least 12 800 juveniles. Exposure risks faced by incarcerated youths are disproportionately underassessed.
Conclusions. The long-term impacts from potential exposures to PFAS are preventable and exacerbate health inequities among incarcerated populations. Widespread public attention to PFASs can be parlayed into broader environmental monitoring for imprisoned people."
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