PFOA Speaker: Gloria Post

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Gloria Post speak at 7:00 PM in CAPA as part of the Understanding PFOA series.

This talk will discuss the scientific information that has emerged during the past ten years about PFOA as a drinking water contaminant. New Jersey was the first state to conduct a statewide drinking water occurrence study of PFOA in 2006, and nationwide occurrence data were more recently collected in 2013-15 through the USEPA Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule 3. Also within the past ten years, toxicology and epidemiology research on PFOA has found previously unknown developmental effects in laboratory animals and associations with health effects in the general population and communities with contaminated drinking water. Consideration of this newer scientific information in risk assessment of PFOA in drinking water will be discussed.

Dr. Gloria Post earned an AB with honors in Biochemical Sciences from Princeton University and a PhD in Pharmacology from Thomas Jefferson University. She has been a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology since 1990. Dr. Post has over thirty years of experience in evaluation of emerging drinking water contaminants. She has been studying the occurrence, health effects, and risk assessment of PFOA in drinking water for more than 10 years. She is the first author of three peer-reviewed publications on PFOA in drinking water, including a highly cited 2012 review article. In 2014, she received the New Jersey American Water Works Association’s annual research award.