Sydney Evans, MPH

There’s a gap between what is legal and what is safe.

We need strong new state and federal actions to eliminate sources of PFAS pollution.

Frankly, you can’t stop your exposure to PFAS. There are too many sources. But what you can do is limit your exposure.

People tend to take the safety of their tap water for granted because it’s being monitored, tested, and treated. But it's important for people to realize that legal doesn’t necessarily mean safe.

To the person that ends up consuming the food that is contaminated with these PFAS, it doesn’t matter whether it was intentional or unintentional—the result is going to be the same.

Communities that are being impacted don’t necessarily have the means to fix it. And it’s going to be a long-term, ongoing issue.

It's not necessarily monitored for in every system, so it's hard to know whether there's something like PFAS in your water.

PFAS is so toxic at such low levels that any level really is cause for concern.

Most people think their water is perfectly safe and pure because it’s treated, but that’s not true.