PFAS Are in Every Bite of Freshwater-Caught Fish

Freshwater fish - once among the healthiest foods on the planet - is now so contaminated that consuming even one a year may be dangerous.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Freshwater fish in the U.S. has been rendered so toxic by environmental pollutants that even eating one fish a year could be dangerous

• EWG researchers analyzed data from more than 500 fish fillets collected across the U.S. from 2013 to 2015

• The fish fillets, collected from U.S. streams, rivers and lakes, had a median level of total PFAS o…