MORNING SENTINEL • October 29, 2022
With the fall hunting season in full swing across Maine, state agencies are working to expand testing for the presence of “forever chemicals” in fish and wildlife with the intention of using expansive testing in Fairfield as a guide for future assessments around the state. Hunters are faced with new state advisories as to what is safe to hunt and eat, and where it is safe to do so. But even as state agencies work to ramp up testing efforts for forever chemicals, also known as PFAS, in fish and wildlife, their efforts are slowed by a lack of labs with the capability to test animal tissue and organs.