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‘Are these chemicals in my blood?’: How one community learned the truth about Pfas pollution

Photo: The Guardian World

What happened

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 informi…

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