Ira Flatow

Do we know what portion of our daily ingestion of PFAS comes from drinking water?

Yeah, I want to dig into that more.

So what happens when you drink the PFAS in it?

How does your body, as you say, magnify what's going on?

How did New Jersey limit the PFAS?

Did they have special treatment plants or filters?

When you said well water, were you talking about people's individual well water?

They were able to eliminate the PFAS from that?

So is New Jersey's water more contaminated than other states?

Yeah.

Are other states looking at your success and implementing their own standards for PFAS?

Dr. Iyer, I know you're a cancer researcher, and I'm wondering how you got interested in studying PFAS and drinking water.

So what's next for your research here?

I imagine since we don't know a lot about the long-term effects, that you're interested in that.

You know, whenever I think about PFAS or other carcinogens or potential carcinogens that we don't know about that take years to develop, I think about asbestos that we all sucked in for half a century, right, from our car brakes and had no idea of how toxic it was.

Could we be facing the same kind of thing with PFAS?

Dr. Iyer, I want to thank you for taking time to be with us today.

Thank you so much, Ira.

It was great to speak with you.

Good luck with your research.