“Forever chemicals,” a class of substances widely used in cookware, food wrappers and other products are thought to be in the blood of nearly all U.S. residents and have been linked to serious health problems.
Now, a group of Emory University researchers have received $250,000 in federal funding to investigate how the chemicals — also known as PFAS — get into our bodies.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced last month that the team from Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health and the School of Medicine will receive funding for the next two years to investigate how people are exposed to the chemicals. The research comes amid a larger effort to effort to rein in PFAS pollution and understand the health and environmental threats posed by the chemicals, which President Joe Biden’s administration has made a top priority.
