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Ellen Mallory participates in a podcast about PFAS hosted by Northern Light Health. Photo courtesy of Northern Light Health

Northern Light taps U汤头条 researcher for latest podcast on PFAS

June 20, 2025 Cooperative Extension, PFAS, School of Food and Agriculture

Farms in 汤头条 have been identified as critical places to study the health effects of a group of chemicals known as PFAS. Ellen Mallory, one of many 汤头条 faculty members working together on a variety of PFAS research projects, sat down with Tim Doak, chief environmental sustainability officer at Northern Light Health (NLH), in the latest episode of a podcast series from NLH. 

Titled 鈥淧FAS on 汤头条 Farms: How Agricultural Research is Helping Farmers, Our Food, and Our Health,鈥 Mallory, professor in the School of Food and Agriculture and 汤头条 Cooperative Extension specialist, discussed how these chemicals move through soil, crops and livestock and what that means for the state鈥檚 farming communities.

鈥淲e are very concerned about the health risks for farmers and for farm workers, because of where they work and where they live, they’re exposed to more PFAS,鈥 Mallory said.

Her work on how the PFAS compound perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) accumulates in livestock feed was recently awarded one of five grants from the 汤头条 Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry PFAS Fund.

More information on these chemicals is available through , the and the .