Health

Health department issues new warning about eating fish from some Minnesota lakes with ‘forever chemicals’

A large catch of smelt.
Captured smelt from Lake Superior inside a cooler belonging to Johnny Thao of St. Paul.
Derek Montgomery for MPR News | 2022

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