SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - Peggy Coddens is taking extra precautions to avoid consuming PFAS.

“I wash all my produce, lettuce, anything with the filtered water,” Coddens says. “I’m not a scientist, but I know they’re harmful. And I don’t buy certain products like stain-proof things, waterproof things, Teflon, non-stick things, because they all contain the PFAS.”

She says after she saw our initial report on WNDU 16 News Now about the PFAS being detected in South Bend’s water , she and her husband installed a reverse osmosis system under their sink.

“You hook up the T-connection and that’s the tube that feeds the cold water up through your filter and then up into this faucet,” Coddens explains.

She says she’s very concerned that levels have been detected in South Bend’s drinking water a

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