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by LeifCarrotson 918 days ago
Parts per trillion are small, but can still be bad for you. And this is an area of active study, the old threshold of 70 ppt was dropped a thousandfold recently:

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/stricter-federal-...

The Wolverine shoe leather tannery up the road dumped their ScotchGuard contaminated scraps/waste in the swamps behind a farm owned by a family friend back in the 70s and 80s. Now my well water is contaminated with a few parts per trillion of PFAS, and the PFAS levels in my blood are significantly higher than the threshold of proven harm.

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How were you able to get a blood test?
Everyone in the township was invited/asked to participate in this study:

https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/safety-injury-prev/environmen...