The Forbidden environmental toxins may be present in drinking water in more places than expected. The country’s county administrative boards have identified over 500 sites where surface water and groundwater can be polluted by chemicals from including fire foam. The survey is part of a major government mission and purpose is to get a large-scale picture of how widespread the problem of perfluorinated substances into the aquatic environment in Sweden, says Karl Lilja at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, which has compiled the list, to SVT.
PFAS are a group of synthetic substances, one of the better-known substances are PFOS was banned in the EU in 2008 and is used, for example, clothes impregnating, coating and cleaning.
Someone acute health risk does not exist under the NFA but an American survey indicates a possible connection between PFAS and bowel disease ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, and kidney and testicular cancer.
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