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Here's the map. Drink responsibly! https://pubs.acs.org/cms/10.1021/acs.est.4c11265/asset/images/large/es4c11265_0006.jpeg https://pubs.acs.org/cms/10.1021/acs

by 1970-01-01 1y ago

Here's the map. Drink responsibly! https://pubs.acs.org/cms/10.1021/acs.est.4c11265/asset/images/large/es4c11265_0006.jpeg https://pubs.acs.org/cms/10.1021/acs.est.4c11265/asset/image...

justin66 1y ago
This looks a lot like one of those heat maps that correlates almost exactly to population.
- 1970-01-01 1y ago
  Are we looking at the same map? The PFAS contamination truly does not follow population.
  - gruez 1y ago
    Yeah it only looks like a population heat map if you include the blue dots. The pink/red shaded areas definitely do not follow population patterns.
    - justin66 1y ago
      Good point.
thw_9a83c 1y ago
It's good to be on the west side, I guess. Seriously, what's the source of the PFAS/PFOS contamination? Chemical plants?
- gjsman-1000 1y ago
  In Minnesota, it’s almost certainly 3M (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing).
- ryathal 1y ago
  PFAS was used in a lot of different things, the sources of major contamination are military bases and manufacturing plants, but it was used in a wide array of consumer products so there is some level of contamination almost everywhere.
DFHippie 1y ago
It looks like PFAS is a bigger problem in red states (Republican-voting states, for those outside the US). I suspect it's due to the prevalence of fossil fuel extraction and refining facilities and military bases in those states. Vermont is in the clear.
teeray 1y ago
I wonder how much of this is just a map of PFAS contamination in general though… is the beer aspect of this notable, or would we see the same for drinking water?
- jsbisviewtiful 1y ago
  Speculation on my part based on other sources I've read, but likely related to water sources being contaminated in general. Curious to know however how additional filtration did not clean out these chemicals. I am so tired. No matter how hard people try to keep this stuff out of their bodies, the lack of regulation and lack of enforcement --or even regulation and enforcement being way too late-- makes the act of simply keeping chemicals out of ourselves impossible. The chemicals are everywhere.

Here's the map. Drink responsibly! https://pubs.acs.org/cms/10.1021/acs.est.4c11265/asset/images/large/es4c11265_0006.jpeg https://pubs.acs.org/cms/10.1021/acs.est.4c11265/asset/image...

justin66 1y ago

This looks a lot like one of those heat maps that correlates almost exactly to population.

1970-01-01 1y ago
Are we looking at the same map? The PFAS contamination truly does not follow population.
- gruez 1y ago
  Yeah it only looks like a population heat map if you include the blue dots. The pink/red shaded areas definitely do not follow population patterns.
  - justin66 1y ago
    Good point.

thw_9a83c 1y ago

It's good to be on the west side, I guess. Seriously, what's the source of the PFAS/PFOS contamination? Chemical plants?

gjsman-1000 1y ago
In Minnesota, it’s almost certainly 3M (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing).
ryathal 1y ago
PFAS was used in a lot of different things, the sources of major contamination are military bases and manufacturing plants, but it was used in a wide array of consumer products so there is some level of contamination almost everywhere.

DFHippie 1y ago

It looks like PFAS is a bigger problem in red states (Republican-voting states, for those outside the US). I suspect it's due to the prevalence of fossil fuel extraction and refining facilities and military bases in those states. Vermont is in the clear.

teeray 1y ago

I wonder how much of this is just a map of PFAS contamination in general though… is the beer aspect of this notable, or would we see the same for drinking water?

jsbisviewtiful 1y ago
Speculation on my part based on other sources I've read, but likely related to water sources being contaminated in general. Curious to know however how additional filtration did not clean out these chemicals. I am so tired. No matter how hard people try to keep this stuff out of their bodies, the lack of regulation and lack of enforcement --or even regulation and enforcement being way too late-- makes the act of simply keeping chemicals out of ourselves impossible. The chemicals are everywhere.