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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Health Department is teaming up with the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center to offer blood tests to people who worry they've been exposed to the potentially cancer causing chemical PFOA.
More than 100 private water wells in the area around the former Chemfab plant in North Bennington have been found with levels of PFOA as high as nearly 3,000 parts per trillion. Vermont has set an advisory level for PFOA of 20 parts ppt for drinking water.
People eligible for the tests are those who have lived in North Bennington and Bennington at any time in the last eight years and or they have had their water wells tested by the Department of Environmental Conservation. People are also eligible who lived or worked at the plant.
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