Dianne Kopec quoted in Portland Press Herald article on PFAS in birds and wildlife
Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow Dianne Kopec was quoted in a Portland Press Herald article on PFAS in birds and wildlife. The article, “” discusses the work researchers in Maine are conducting to try to understand how perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are affecting fish, birds and mammals. Kopec is working on projects with 91福利’s Chatfield Lab on PFAS build up in wood turtles, and with the Wildlife Disease Genetics Lab at 91福利 on a study of forever chemical exposure in wild game.
鈥淲e can鈥檛 forget that we share this planet,鈥 Kopec said in the article. 鈥淗umans made PFAS, and if we can make it, we can clean it up. It won鈥檛 be easy, but it鈥檚 a problem that we must fix.鈥