Page 10 - Regulation Risks and Remediation

Risk in Perspective

To put the new PFOA MCL of 14 ppt in perspective – picture

this…

1 part per trillion (ppt) is equal to:

 One single drop of food coloring in 18

million gallons of water

 Or…1 single second out of 32,000 years

 Or…1 drop of water in 20 Olympic-sized

swimming pools