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The Seine and other European rivers contaminated by a 'forever chemical' that has gone under the radar

www.lemonde.fr The Seine and other European rivers contaminated by a 'forever chemical' that has gone under the radar

Analyses carried out by the Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) in 10 EU countries show the widespread presence of high levels of trifluoroacetic acid, a member of the PFAS family.

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Oh great. And in a decade they will tell us that the company that made it already knew for 3 decades how horrible it was.
- The company is Bayer btw
  
  The production of Zyklon B was not enough of a crime against humanity huh.
  
  But the company will undoubtedly spin off another company and divest from the chemical in question.
  
  I don't have the full article, do they mention Bayer? Téflon does its own fair share of damages
- The EU started to heavily regulate some PFAS in 2010, others following on the heels. The regulations include a heavy focus on handling and waste management in order to minimize the potential of exposure and contamination. The plan to get rid of PFAS entirely has been around ever since. So yeah, they've known it's horrible.
  
  Dutch tv had a whole documentary on how pfas contaminated soil is mixed with other soils and then dumped in artificial ponds or lakes we created winning sand.
- People from a Teflon factory were protesting pfas ban in cookingware so you can add weak leadership on top of that
Can't we just dump more nitrite into the groundwater through cow feces to make this go away?
- I don't know if it will work but we sure are trying to

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