BBC reporter Catrin Nye has been carrying out an investigation for BBC Panorama into how so-called forever chemicals could affect people’s health and contaminate the environment.
Forever chemicals, or PFAS (per-and poly fluoroalkyl substances), are a group of about 10,000 chemicals and are used in anything from cookware, to waterproof clothes, electronics and medical equipment.
They are persistent pollutants, meaning they don’t degrade easily and instead build up in the environment.
Scientists have linked a small number of them to serious harms, such as infertility and cancer.
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Wow eye opening
DuPont knew about the dangerous side of PFAS since the 1960s but they swept it under the rug.
… and it’s all still legal after this has even proven for at least 20 years 😂 They aren’t looking out for you
I’ve been filtering my water for years now. Fluoride is also another chemical that will come out in a few years as damaging. We were told we were crazy and now the chickens are coming home to roost. And people are confused why the cancer rates are the highest since records began.
And i think to myselffff…..what a wonderfuuul wooorld 🎶🎵🌎
Now these factories producing these are shifting to India – maharashtra .
Good luck indians
Boomers: made rich by the plastics industry that will shorten the lives of everyone after them
Thanks boomers
“Long time,” theyre called “forever chemicals.”
The leaders of these companies should be drawn and quatered.
Tell the people to fwho made these chemicals to figure out how to clean them and hold the executives or decision makers to account.
These people hurt us all and nothing will ever be done cause we live in such a stupid system
Watch Dark Waters, a movie that based on the true story of attorney Rob Bilott and chemical company DuPont that was deliberately poisoning humanity with PFAS for profit.