UMaine scientist: PFAS affects species of plants, animals differently

SUN JOURNAL • April 23, 2022

Over a dozen people attended an Earth Day discussion about PFAS, sometimes called “forever chemicals,” on Friday at the Excelsior Grange in Poland. Richard Kersbergen, a professor of sustainable dairy and forage systems at the University of Maine, said the state is currently working to test every known site where waste sludge has been applied. Kersbergen has been working with the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to better understand the “root pathway from soil to (feed) to cow, to milk, to child.”