DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos has issued a statement on a New Investigation of Potential PFAS Contamination. It reads,
“I am directing my staff at the Department of Environmental Conservation to work with their expert colleagues at the Departments of Health and Agriculture and Markets to take a hard look at new science shared by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency about potential PFAS contamination in consumer products, including insecticides, pesticides, and other crop protectant products packaged in fluorinated HDPE containers. As a first step, DEC is moving swiftly to quarantine Anvil 10+10 products statewide.”