New research from the University of British Columbia has found that B.C.’s sea otters are contaminated.

“Unfortunately, every single sea otter that we looked at did have ‘forever chemicals’ in them, including a very young sea otter that had died just after being born,” Dana Price, a researcher at the university, told Global News.

For the first time, UBC researchers have identified per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS, in B.C. sea otters.

Of the 11 deceased animals studied, eight of 40 tested PFAS chemicals were present, with seven found only in the liver.

“They are this man-made chemical; they don’t exist on their own in nature,” Price said.

“But a lot of them have been found to be quite toxic and can cause things from cancers, organ damage, and they act a lot in s

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