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Elissa Slotkin: “PFAS has had an impact on our agricultural sector, our…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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September 16, 2024 PFAS Telephone Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 27:45

… maybe at Michigan State University asking about all these details, but let me try and boil it down. In addition to PFAS in water, we have seen the impact that PFAS has had an impact on our agricultural sector, our farmers, through the spread of fertilizers that are contaminated with PFAS on our farmland. This has happened in Livingston county. It's happened in other places around the state and around the country where fertilizer has come. It's been already pre contaminated with PFAS coming out of a wastewater facility. (27:45–27:58)

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Asserts that PFAS contamination in fertilizers affects the agricultural sector and farmland.

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