Science board to examine GenX health standard
The North Carolina Secretaries Science Advisory Board will continue a discussion Monday on whether to raise the state’s provisional health goal for GenX above the current 140 parts per billion in drinking water.The state Department of Health and Human Services set the health goal in July, a month after news broke that GenX had contaminated public drinking water in Wilmington and other areas near the coast.GenX is a federally unregulated chemical compound used by DuPont […]