CDC
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the nation's public-health agency, responsible for tracking disease, exposure, and mortality. AbilityForge cites the CDC and its toxic-substances arm, ATSDR, for population-level contamination and health data.
What It Is
The CDC is the federal agency charged with protecting public health — tracking disease, injury, exposure, and death across the whole U.S. population. Through its National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), it runs a biomonitoring program that measures hundreds of chemicals in the blood and urine of a representative national sample. Its toxic-substances arm, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), assesses the health effects of environmental contamination at specific sites and across populations.
Because the CDC measures the whole population rather than a single plaintiff, its findings establish how widespread an exposure is — a question no individual lawsuit can answer on its own.
The CDC and PFAS
CDC biomonitoring has detected PFAS "forever chemicals" in the blood of nearly every American tested. That single finding converts PFAS from a localized contamination story into a near-universal exposure — and it is the CDC's population-level data, not any one company's admission, that makes the scale impossible to dismiss.
Why It Matters
When AbilityForge cites the CDC, it is citing the government's own count — the federal body whose entire job is to measure exposure and harm at the level of the population. That makes it one of the hardest sources to wave away: it is not advocacy data, it is the nation's public-health record.
The Same Playbook — Healthcare, Glyphosate, PFAS →Sources: CDC National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) biomonitoring data; CDC/ATSDR assessments of PFAS exposure. Public-health findings are periodically updated.