BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 22, 2025
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that people limit consuming animals harvested from three different towns due to PFAS contamination. The new advisories apply to deer and turkey hunted in parts of the towns of Knox, Thorndike and Unity. That is on top of warnings to limit intake of animals harvested in Fairfield, Skowhegan, Unity, Unity Township, Albion, Freedom, Knox and Thorndike. The Maine CDC issued the new guidelines after elevated levels of PFAS, the group of man-made “forever chemicals,” were detected in deer or wild turkey sampled by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services and the Maine CDC.