The investigation has lasted more than a year and for those who worked at the fire drill site.
The review is now complete but the defense chooses to keep the results to yourself.
– It is outrageous that a public authority chooses to cover up a survey they did of what befell their employees, says Herman Afzelius who is chairman of PFAS association.
High levels
it was in December 2013 that it was discovered that the drinking water in Kallinge contained soaring levels of the environmental toxin PFAS.
The same substance on fire foam that since the 1980s has been used on the air wing F17. PFAs are stored in people and the environment and has been shown to have hormone-disrupting effects on the thyroid and fertility.
Privacy
Herman Afzelius who himself drank the polluted water Kallinge think it is important for the whole society that all information is on the table.
Folke Borgh , head of the Defence environmental assessment unit, says that the key is to protect the employee’s privacy. And he does not think the defense blinds.
– Not a thing, he says.
Is the reason that you do not publish the results could be perceived as unfavorable to defense?
– no, it is about ensuring that health information can not be traced to an individual individual, he says.
But Herman Afzelius believes that it is important that the large study that follows over 60 000 people who live or lived at Kallinge since the early 1980s may be as good a basis as possible .
There, Defence investigation could be a good addition, he believes.
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