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Concerns About GenX Contamination Grow In North Carolina

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Last week state officials held a to share information and address concerns about GenX, the unregulated chemical produced by that has . Many residents said they left with more questions than answers.

Meanwhile, last week that GenX and another related chemical have been found in produce and vegetation near a Chemours plant in the Netherlands. And state regulators are now testing soil to better understand spikes in GenX after big rainfalls.

Host Frank Stasio talks with ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ politics reporter about the latest GenX news.

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Amanda Magnus is the executive producer of Embodied, a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships and health. She has also worked on other ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ shows including Tested and CREEP.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.