Forever Chemicals

Fish in the United States are having a bigger dose of these chemicals compare to other places. These chemicals are spreading all over the United States, and even to small bodies of water in rural environments. This is becoming detrimental to fish population health, as well as human health. So much so that according to healthline, “A study published today by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) reports that eating just a single serving of freshwater fish caught in the United States could be the equivalent of drinking water contaminated with PFOS for a month.” PFOS is a potentially harmful chemical, known as perfluoro octane sulfonic.

This is extremely alarming because fish is an important part in people’s diets. It is also very important for restaurants because many rural restaurants serve freshwater fish to their customers. These numbers are not going down either and there are no signs of it slowing down. A bad source of this is runoff pollution from sewage and on plants. Healthline has also gone on to say that “perfluorinated alkylated substances, were 280 times greater in freshwater fish than in some commercially caught fish. This is primarily a freshwater fish problem, and not enough people are talking about it.

This cannot be stopped unless there are concerned efforts to regulate pollution around bodies of water. Most companies do not care about the environment, but only the profits they are seeing. There needs to be more marketing about this problem to the people. We as a community need to demand better for our environment and better from our businesses.