There's often PFAS in takeout containers. Make sure your drinking water is cleaned up. Do not microwave stuff in your takeout containers, which has been scientifically proven to be bad. You don't want to go stand behind an exhaust pipe and suck in exhaust.
The Biden administration has new plans to reduce the amount of PFAS or “forever chemicals” in America’s drinking water. Barbara Moran, WBUR’s climate and environmental correspondent, explains why that will only get us so far.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Haleema Shah, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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