PFAs in Oakdale created by 3M caused serious health results for residents (Dakota: costs)

[TheGrandViking]

https://www.startribune.com/pfas-lac...ale/572364972/

Oakdale residents who drank water polluted with toxic "forever chemicals" experienced elevated rates of infertility, premature births and low birthweight babies due to the contaminants, according to a multiyear review of health records.
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Specifically, the new findings show that babies in Oakdale were 35% more likely to weigh less than 2,500 grams, or 5½ pounds, at birth, and nearly 45% more likely to be born before 32 weeks, than those in communities where the water wasn't contaminated. The general fertility rate was 15 to 25% lower.

These results are stunning. The long term health costs assocaited with the exposure during their lifetime will be staggering and probably not be fully known for decades.

Regulations can hinder short or near term growth but long term costs are rarely considered when regulations are removed or lifted.

The bill always comes due.

[MrMinneapolis]

multi billion dollar scumbag corporation poisoning water? u dont say! To hell with 3M

[jmgg]

It wasn't too long ago the 3M plant in Brookings SD based on government investigations, the worst polluter in South Dakota.

Reading this about the plant in Oakdale doesn't surprise me.

[wamer27]

I guess it kinda fits in it’s name Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing