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.
It is not recommended to eat any meat from animals harvested in this area.
Maine also has issued advisories on fish that have been contaminated with PFAS.
For more details on the consumption limits on numbers and species of freshwater fish in each waterbody, check out the Maine CDC website.
Find more information about PFAS here.
