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A10 Tuesday, June 4, 2019 |TimesDaily FOOD SAFETY FDAtesting ﬁndscontamination in foodsby‘forever chemicals’ By Ellen Knickmeyer, John Flesher and Michael Casey The Associated Press WASHINGTON —The Food and Drug Administra- tion’s first broad testing of food foraworrisome class of nonstick, stain-resistant industrialcompoundsfound substantial levels in some grocery storemeats and seafood and in off-the-shelf chocolate cake, accord- ing to unreleased findings FDA researchers presented This Aug.2,2018, file photo shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administra- at ascientific conference in tionbuilding behind FDAlogos at abus stop on the agency’s campus Europe. in SilverSpring,Md. [JACQUELYN MARTIN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] TheFDA’s disclosure is As ahandful of PFAS con- congressional hearings, JUNE 11 •6:30 -8:00 PM likely to add to concerns taminations of food emerge state legislation and intense raised by states and public around the country, author- federal and state scrutiny at the Florence/Lauderdale Coliseum health groups that President ities have deemed some over the past two years. DonaldTrump’s admin- ahealth concern but not The federal toxicology Join theTimesDailyaswehonor local high school istration is not acting fast others.Theagencyconsiders review last year concluded coachesathletes and name an overall male and female enough orfirmly enough to each discovery of the com- the compounds are more start regulating the man- poundinfoodcasebycase, dangerous than previously made compounds, called including the kind of food, thought, saying consistent Athlete of the Year “forever chemicals.” Afed- levelsofcontamination,fre- studies of exposed people eral toxicology report last quency of consumption and “suggest associations” with Guest Speaker: ClayDyer, year cited consistent asso- latestscientificinformation, some kinds of cancers, liver ciations between very high Rabin said. problems, low birth weight BassmastersFisherman &MotivationalSpeaker levels of the industrial com- “MeasuringPFAS and other issues. Honorees: poundsinpeoples’bloodand concentrationsinfood,esti- Because the tough com- health risksbut said there mating dietary exposure and pounds are predicted to TimesDailyCoaches of the Year was not enough evidence to determining the associated take thousands of years Football prove the compounds as the health effects is an emerg- to degrade, and because 1A-3A-Darrell Higgins, Mars Hill Bible School cause. ingareaofscience,”theFDA older versions have been 4A-7A-Bo Culver,Deshler High School The levels in nearly half said. found to accumulate in of the meat and fish tested PFAS, created by DuPont peoples’ bodies, PFAS has Tennessee-Rick Rice, WayneCounty High School weredoubleormoretheonly in 1938 and put into use for acquired the name “forever Volleyball currently existing federal tough nonstick cookware, chemicals.” 1A-3A-Melissa Hammond, Lexington High School advisory level for any kind now exists in an estimated The Environmental 4A-7A-DrewMurphy,Central High School of the widely used man- 5,000 varieties. 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