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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Matthew Kelly

EXPLAINED: Hunter water says its water is safe despite pfas contamination | Rare Historical Photos

PFAS chemicals are permitted at levels up to 140 times higher in Australia than those allowed in the US.

Hunter Water insists its drinking water supplies are safe despite containing trace amounts of chemicals that have been classified as carcinogens.

The US Environmental Protection Agency recently declared there was "no safe level of exposure" to the PFAS chemicals perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in drinking water and they were likely to cause cancer.

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