Drinking water contaminated by industrial runoff or plastic waste
Eating food contaminated from plastic packaging, processing machines, or the environment
Breathing air contaminated by heated PFAS
Using products made with PFAS
Working with or manufacturing PFAS
Who is at risk of exposure?
Adults who work with PFAS and anybody living near factories using PFAS are especially at risk
Adults typically have higher levels of PFAS. Since PFAS don’t break down, people who have been alive longer have had more time for the polymers to accumulate in their bloodstream
Children consume more food and water per pound of body weight than adults, so they are at risk of intaking a proportionally high level of PFAS
Children are typically exposed while in the womb
Really everyone, since PFAS have been found both in the environment and in the blood of the general U.S. population
