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Why high levels of PFAS should be a personal injury by law

For decades, the people living in the Swedish town of Kallinge got their tap water from a treatment plant that turned out to be contaminated with harmful PFAS chemicals. It has been a long journey with many legal and medical twists and turns for the close to 5,000 inhabitants of Kallinge since December of 2013. That’s when high levels of PFAS – more than 100 times the EU limit value – were discovered in the water treatment plant run by the municipally owned water company. More:

Why high levels of PFAS should be a personal injury by law  –  ChemSec
No to PFAS  –  ChemSecFor decades, the people living in the Swedish town of Kallinge got their tap water from a treatment plant that turned out to be contaminated with harmful PFAS chemicals. It has been a long journey with many legal and medical twists and turns for the close to 5,000 inhabitants of Kallinge since December of 2013. That’s when high levels of PFAS – more than 100 times the EU limit value – were discovered in the water treatment plant run by the municipally owned water company. More:

Why high levels of PFAS should be a personal injury by law  –  ChemSec
No to PFAS  –  ChemSec
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