BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 15, 2022
The “forever chemicals” should be nowhere near our food or drinking water. They’re linked to cancer and other serious health problems. Here in Maine we have seen how they can even destroy family farms. But manufacturers have been putting them in food packaging for decades. In 2019, Maine’s Legislature passed a bill to ban PFAS from food packaging here. But the issue of PFAS must be addressed nationwide. Pollution doesn’t stay within state lines. There is a bill in Congress with bipartisan support to solve this problem – the Keep Food Containers Safe From PFAS Act (H.R. 6026 and S. 3169). Maine’s congressional delegation needs to step up and help ensure the federal government catches up with where Maine already is at. ~ Mark Hyland, Poland