EPA solicits help setting perchlorate rules
January 9, 2009

The EPA has asked the National Research Council to come up with additional information to help guide public-health standards for perchlorate in drinking water. Perchlorate has been used in solid fuels and its ingestion is thought to interfere with the proper function of the thyroid gland. The EPA rulemaking process is still underway, so the final effect it will have on drinking water regulations is still unknown. But perchlorate is widely found in western Iowa and across much of Nebraska, and some specific communities, like Hills, Iowa have had particular problems with perchlorate already, so it will certainly have an effect on us.

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