People living next to a chemicals plant near Blackpool were tested for ‘forever chemicals’. Last week they received the alarming results
Last February, I got a call from a woman called Sam Hammond. We had been
speaking on and off
for a while over her growing concern that her garden could be affected by pollution from a nearby chemical plant.
That morning, Sam had been
hand-delivered a letter
from her council informing her that her pet ducks’ eggs, reared in her garden, were contaminated with Pfas chemicals.

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