A new set of court filings in the ongoing Salisbury PFAS contamination lawsuit against Perdue Farms is shedding further light on where the company says the pollution may have originated and who it believes should ultimately bear responsibility.

A federal judge has denied a motion to fully dismiss or stay a lawsuit against Perdue Farms Inc. over alleged PFAS contamination in Wicomico County, allowing the suit to continue. The judge dismissed two of the four counts originally brought against Perdue, however. 

WBOC has learned a United States District Court judge has denied Perdue Farms’ request to fully dismiss or stay a class action lawsuit against the company over PFAS, or “forever chemical,” contamination detected near their Perdue AgriBusiness plant in Salisbury.

Researchers and environmental officials are keeping track of PFAS, or forever chemicals, turning up in the bodies of local fish - and they’re advising neighbors and seafood lovers on how to stay safe.

WBOC has obtained a third-party report on PFAS contamination at Perdue’s AgriBusiness identifying possible sources of the “forever chemicals.”

Perdue Farms has formally requested that the U.S. District Court of Maryland dismiss a lawsuit against them over alleged PFAS, or “forever chemical”, contamination in groundwater at properties near their Salisbury plant.

The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) has released the findings of a comprehensive study of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), or “forever chemicals,” throughout Delaware’s surface waters.