{"id":29702,"date":"2024-10-22T00:25:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T00:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=29702"},"modified":"2024-10-22T00:25:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T00:25:25","slug":"proposed-changes-to-drinking-water-guidelines-for-pfas-not-low-enough-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/10\/22\/proposed-changes-to-drinking-water-guidelines-for-pfas-not-low-enough-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed changes to drinking water guidelines for PFAS not low enough: Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The NSW Government should be strongly advocating for Australia\u2019s drinking water guidelines to reflect global best practice after draft new guidelines released today still have Australia lagging behind the US on acceptable levels for some \u2018forever chemicals\u2019 says&nbsp;<strong>Cate Faehrmann, Greens NSW MP&nbsp;<\/strong>and chair of the newly established Upper House Inquiry into PFAS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhy should Australians accept a new drinking water standard that has levels of one forever chemical, PFOA, at 50 times what the US is prepared to accept? PFOA has recently been declared carcinogenic by the World Health Organisation, so surely the only acceptable level is close, or at, zero,\u201d Cate Faehrmann said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAustralia is behind many other jurisdictions that have acted on the growing body of evidence about just how dangerous these chemicals are much sooner. It shouldn\u2019t have taken a media investigation and negative headlines to get action here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAustralia must now seize this opportunity and adopt the world\u2019s best practice when it comes to identifying and removing PFAS from our water supplies. The NSW Government needs to be strongly advocating for this at the federal level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt makes no sense that new guidelines will set acceptable levels for some \u2018forever chemicals\u2019 higher than what the US allows. Why should we be prepared to accept higher levels of chemicals than people in the US?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe public deserves to know on what evidence all decisions around supposedly safe levels are being made,\u201d said Cate Faehrmann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Government should be strongly advocating for Australia\u2019s drinking water guidelines to reflect global best practice after draft new guidelines released today still have Australia lagging behind the US on acceptable levels for some \u2018forever chemicals\u2019 says&nbsp;Cate Faehrmann, Greens NSW MP&nbsp;and chair of the newly established Upper House Inquiry into PFAS. \u201cWhy should Australians &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/10\/22\/proposed-changes-to-drinking-water-guidelines-for-pfas-not-low-enough-greens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Proposed changes to drinking water guidelines for PFAS not low enough: Greens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29703,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29702\/revisions\/29703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}