A new study out Tuesday in Letters looked at a national database that monitors chemical levels in drinking water and found that 6 million people were being exposed to levels of a certain chemical that exceed what the Environmental Protection Agency considers healthy. Hu said her next step is to build a model that can better identify which areas have PFAS contamination so that the EPA can better monitor the areas that are the highest priority, like those near manufacturing plants.
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