{"id":30352,"date":"2023-07-12T08:18:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=30352"},"modified":"2023-07-12T08:18:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:18:41","slug":"rachel-schattman-quoted-in-bdn-article-on-pfas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2023\/07\/12\/rachel-schattman-quoted-in-bdn-article-on-pfas\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Schattman quoted in BDN article on PFAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23525 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Schattman headshot\" width=\"190\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-1024x904.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-768x678.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-1536x1355.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-2048x1807.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-105x93.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-317x280.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-423x373.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-634x559.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-846x747.jpg 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-951x839.jpg 951w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Schattman-headshot-3-19-21-cropped-smaller-1268x1119.jpg 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,190px\" \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangordailynews.com\/2023\/07\/11\/homestead\/umaine-researchers-want-to-understand-pfas-absorbed-joam40zk0w\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bangor Daily News<\/a> featured a partnership between University of Maine researchers and Maine organic farmer Sue Hunter, whose land in Unity, Maine, is highly contaminated with toxic PFAS, to determine how much or how little specific crops absorb the toxins. The research is focusing on three specific areas \u2014 how PFAS are absorbed by forage crops, how the chemicals are absorbed by specific market crops and if the addition of charcoal-like substance to the soil could prevent the toxins from getting into the plants at all. \u201cThese projects are not similar to anything being done in Maine so far. There is research going elsewhere in the country, but it\u2019s looking at the big commodity crops,\u201d said Rachel Schattman, assistant professor of sustainable agriculture at the University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture and Mitchell Center faculty fellow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bangor Daily News featured a partnership between University of Maine researchers and Maine organic farmer Sue Hunter, whose land in Unity, Maine, is highly contaminated with toxic PFAS, to determine how much or how little specific crops absorb the toxins. 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