{"id":80126,"date":"2023-07-10T00:45:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T00:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=80126"},"modified":"2023-07-10T00:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T00:45:35","slug":"tap-out-federal-study-estimates-tap-water-from-45-of-u-s-faucets-may-contain-forever-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=80126","title":{"rendered":"Tap OUT! Federal Study Estimates Tap Water From 45% Of U.S. Faucets May Contain \u2018Forever Chemicals\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests that tap water from nearly 45% of faucets in the U.S. may contain \u201cforever chemicals\u201d known as PFAS (per-and polyfluorinated alkyl substances). These substances \u201cbreak down very slowly and can build up,\u201d leading to \u201cadverse health outcomes\u201d like \u201cincreased risk of some cancers,\u201d per the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theshaderoom.com\/study-tap-water-forever-chemicals\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests that tap water from nearly 45% of faucets in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/80126-tap-out-federal-study-estimates-tap-water-from-45-of-us-faucets-may-contain-forever-chemicals.jpg",1920,1088,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/80126-tap-out-federal-study-estimates-tap-water-from-45-of-us-faucets-may-contain-forever-chemicals-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/80126-tap-out-federal-study-estimates-tap-water-from-45-of-us-faucets-may-contain-forever-chemicals-300x170.jpg",300,170,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/80126-tap-out-federal-study-estimates-tap-water-from-45-of-us-faucets-may-contain-forever-chemicals-768x435.jpg",640,363,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/80126-tap-out-federal-study-estimates-tap-water-from-45-of-us-faucets-may-contain-forever-chemicals-1024x580.jpg",640,363,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/80126-tap-out-federal-study-estimates-tap-water-from-45-of-us-faucets-may-contain-forever-chemicals-1536x870.jpg",1536,870,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/80126-tap-out-federal-study-estimates-tap-water-from-45-of-us-faucets-may-contain-forever-chemicals.jpg",1920,1088,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/80126-tap-out-federal-study-estimates-tap-water-from-45-of-us-faucets-may-contain-forever-chemicals-1024x580.jpg",1024,580,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/80126-tap-out-federal-study-estimates-tap-water-from-45-of-us-faucets-may-contain-forever-chemicals-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/80126-tap-out-federal-study-estimates-tap-water-from-45-of-us-faucets-may-contain-forever-chemicals-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}