The group of farmers are represented by advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in June. It comes after the constable in Johnson County, Texas, partnered with scientists at PEER to investigate livestock deaths at the farm of Karen and Tony Coleman.
Through an investigation, they found two catfish had concentrations of PFOS at 74,000 and 57,000 parts per trillion, or 30,000 times the dose beyond which EPA estimates noncancer health effects were possible. A stillborn calf tested at 610,000 parts per trillion — PEER said a serving of the calf’s liver would have exceeded the EPA’s reference dose by about 250,000 times.
