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Video: How Much PFAS is Too Much? The Shocking Truth About Water Contamination – with PFAS Lawyer Paulsen.
January 19, 2025
Transcript
Good afternoon Tracy Paulson of rightful legal uh you’ve probably seen a few of my videos regarding p uh and the contamination in Water Supplies today I wanted to talk about how much pasas is actually considered dangerous in your drinking water the federal EPA has set maximum contaminant levels at four parts per trillion to give you an idea of what that is that’s equivalent to four drops of water in a a size volume of 20 Olympic swimming pools so that’s a very small amount in Massachusetts uh the limits have been set at 20 parts per trillion this is far above the federal limits um also the US EPA has stated recently that no amount of past chemicals in any amount are considered safe for consumption and drinking water by human beings um in Mass across the state many cities and towns and private Wells are riddled with these forever chemicals um it’s important to know that these chemicals can be found in consumer products such as Teflon and cortex um however drinking through the water supply is the number one uh way of contamination in human beings uh for this chemical to enter your body and bioaccumulate I wanted to talk about some cities and towns that have particularly High alarming amounts of pasas some of these numbers are from a 2021 study by the Sierra Club and some of these limits may have been brought down or rectified since that time but if you’ve been exposed at any time since 1990 to these levels then you are at extreme risk for health issues um some of these numbers are air for instance air had um 248 parts per trillion Acton had 93 uh carile has4 parts per trillion Mash B had 104 parts per trillion Princeton was at 410 Sharon Massachusetts was at 108 Stow was at 96 parts per trillion and Westfield due to its location by the military base was at 310 parts per trillion and also hyanis had exorbitant numbers close to 800 parts per trillion at one time um there are many cities and towns that have high levels here in um deam um Massachusetts and Westwood the drinking water limits are 15 parts per trillion now in 2024 that far exceeds the 0% um amount in drinking water um these forever chem chemicals can cause a myriad of health issues including high blood pressure um high cholesterol infertility but they all also um are possible um for life-threatening illnesses such as kidney cancer and testicular cancer um ulcerative colitis they’ve also been linked directly to thyroid cancer um and liver cancer and there is a current lawsuit um now that you could be part of and possibly be eligible for um this is active now so time is of the essence if you want to talk about this and see if you perhaps could qualify I’d be more than happy to have an initial free consultation with you um my number is 617 821 5856 and please also um go to my website at rightful legal.com I have many articles of particular cities and towns in the um what’s going on there with pasas and um the possibility of joining the lawsuit um and please like this channel um And subscribe above to stay current um with these videos I’ll be doing more in the future um thank you again and um I look forward to hearing from you
