BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Health has updated guidelines for fish consumption after PFAS, or forever chemicals, were found in fish in waterbodies across the state.
According to the MDH website, those chemicals were found in 10 Minnesota counties – Hennepin, Ramsey, Dakota, Washington, Anoka, Carver, McLeod, Martin, Douglas and St. Louis.
“PFAS is around in our environment, it is in products, it is in homes,” Angela Preimesberger, the fish consumption guidance lead for MDH, said. “It is a common contaminant that most people that have been tested have found to have in their bodies, so fish is one route of exposure though to these contaminants.”…