“We are being contaminated against our will,” said study co-author Vi Waghiyi, who is from Savoonga. (via AlaskaBeacon)
PBDEs are a class of compounds used as flame retardants. PFAS compounds are also used for that purpose but are found in a wide variety of consumer products such as cosmetics, clothing and cookware; they are known as “forever chemicals” because they do not break down in the environment. PBDEs have been phased out in the United States since 2004, but there is no national PFAS ban.
Pam Miller, executive director of Alaska Community Action on Toxics, and Vi Waghiyi, the organization’s environmental health and justice program director, hold up a photo of the late Annie Alowi, a health aide from the St. Lawrence Island community of Savoonga who spurred studies of contaminants from local and long-range pollutants. Miller and Waghiyi are co-authors of a study that examined contaminants found in marine mammals and reindeer that the Yup’ik people of St.
There were some new discoveries, however. The study appears to be the first to document PFAS compounds in bowhead whales, with traces showing up in It also found that of all tested species, seals generally had the highest levels of PBDEs. That shows how persistent those chemicals are in the environment, said Pam Miller, ACAT’s executive director.
The study, which used tissue samples provided by local hunters, is the latest in a series in a research program conducted by ACAT and its partners. The program traces back to the advocacy of , a former health aide in Savoonga, who pushed for cleanup of military pollution on the island after watching so many villagers get cancer and other health problems. Much of the inspiration for ACAT’s founding and its continued work; she died of cancer herself in 1999.
A Bering Sea bearded seal displays its distinctive whiskers. A study of animals hunted by St. Lawrence Island’s Indigenous people found that the highest levels of flame-retardant chemicals were generally in seals.
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