PFAS fund begins blood‑testing outreach, moves forward on clinical studies and mental‑health supports

The PFAS Fund team said it has mailed letters to more than 600 residences identified as presumptively eligible for PFAS blood‑serum testing and outlined parallel work on clinical follow‑up, exposure research and a proposed mental‑health support network for affected farmers and residents.

“We mailed out letters to over 600 homes that are presumptively eligible for PFAS blood serum testing paid for by the PFAS fund,” Director Beth Valentine told the advisory committee. She said the department used DEP sampling databases to identify addresses where drinking water tested above 20 parts per trillion (sum of six PFAS) or soil tested above 170 parts per billion.

How the testing will work

Valentine said the department will send authorization packages to eligible individuals; those people take the authorization to their primary‑care clinician, who will order the tests. “No clinical results come back to the department,”…