It urges people to eat up to four meals a month of any fish that registers PFOS at less than 50,000 ppt. Remarkably, the state health department does not consider those results to be potentially risky for fish eaters. The mean level of PFOS alone was 11,800 ppt. Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed even lower enforcement levels for those two chemicals: 4 ppt. When EPA finalizes that rule, New York will be obliged to drop its contamination limits for tap water.īy contrast, Seneca lake trout were found to have, on average, total PFAS chemicals of 26,100 ppt. The DOH recently required public water utilities statewide to undertake expensive fixes when tap water they produce exceeds 10 parts per trillion for either of two PFAS compounds: PFOS and PFOA. The latest scientific research shows PFAS chemicals - a class of more than 10,000 man-made compounds used to make everyday products that are non-stick, stain-resistant and waterproof - are a serious health hazard even when measured in only a few parts per trillion. On average, the lake trout SUNY-ESF tested contained PFAS chemicals at more than a thousand times the concentration that the state deems safe in public drinking water. “Our take-away, our main finding was the Seneca Lake lake trout have the highest PFAS exposure among all the species that we looked at from the Derby.” Minutes earlier, Razavi had said: “I want to thank … all the anglers that let us use part of their meal - their dinner - for our research…. “We want people to keep fishing these lakes and we want them … to be eating the fish from nature that’s freely available,” Roxanne Razavi, an assistant professor at SUNY’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry, said at the conclusion of a recent webinar. Even the scientists who recently quantified the contamination levels of Seneca fish took refuge in the DOH guidelines and were careful to put their results “in context” by emphasizing the nutritional benefits of the fish.

Pashua lake lake trout