Different health agencies can't agree on how much of certain 'forever chemicals' like PFOA are safe to be exposed to — their safety limits vary by as much as 1,000 times, so experts say they need to get on the same page.

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An introduction to the Alliance for Risk Assessment Beyond Science and Decisions XIV: PFAS Limits: How Did We Get So Far Apart?

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The study looked at how different agencies set safe levels for harmful chemicals like PFOA and found they don’t agree—some say it’s safe at much higher levels than others. Experts say this big difference shows we need to standardize how we decide what’s safe.

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An introduction to the Alliance for Risk Assessment Beyond Science and Decisions XIV: PFAS Limits: How Did We Get So Far Apart?

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DOI: 10.69982/jtrp-25-0001

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