Texas Tribune interviews Mallory on state responses to PFAS
The Texas Tribune interviewed Ellen Mallory, a professor and specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and School of Food and Agriculture, on Maine’s response to the presence of a group of chemicals known as PFAS. Mallory said the state’s response has been crucial in dealing with PFAS because of the lack of regulations at the federal level. “The important part here is it’s really hard to have any response to PFAS contamination if we don’t have any standards,” Mallory said. “So a state like Texas that has no standards, what do you do? How do you help farmers determine if their food is safe or not?” Texas-based KSAT and KBTX shared the report.