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The long-term health effects are really unclear, he says.

Researchers are still studying them.

There's a list of potential health effects in really small type up on the big screen.

To show you the types of health effects that are being studied.

Liver enzyme levels, total cholesterol, uric acid, sex hormones, thyroid hormones, immune function, obesity, birth weight, kidney function, diabetes, cancers.

But Chan says the studies aren't all coming to the same conclusions.

They're difficult to interpret.

What do these ultimately mean for a person's health?

And the answer is we still don't know.

And here's where things seem to get even more confusing.

The officials tell the crowd they don't really know what levels of this chemical are safe to drink.

But they're also saying, for most people, including everyone on the public water system, there's no reason to believe it's unsafe to drink.

In 2016, federal regulators hadn't set a legal limit for PFOA in drinking water.

The officials say New Hampshire has set its own limit out of, quote, an abundance of caution.

And people in Merrimack with TAPs testing higher than the state's limit would start getting bottled water delivered to their houses.

After they finish their presentation, officials open up the floor for questions.

Everyone gets three minutes to speak.

My wife is currently pregnant.

Are there any extra precautions that she needs to be taking?

The meeting drags on into the night.