loot my blood has over forty three micrograms of p.f. away per liter my wife has the same thing and not a day goes by when we don't talk about p.f. i way it's depressing tens of thousands of people here in the altitude district are affected not because of the. for the past three years concerned citizens have been meeting on a regular basis to pressure the authorities to lay everything on the table they feel district administrators have done too little and too late to inform the public on a levels in the water for fund blame our it was a shock to find out he was contaminated you know organise you know my plasma was refused when i tried to donate to a blood bank we formed this group because we were not informed about the p.f. we contamination here in the district only after putting pressure on the authorities and we achieved a certain degree of transparency. but just how dangerous is p f o a a for humans it. is technical officer for chemical safety of the w h o's european center for environment and health care for a is a persistent and by accum

ever since the authorities were made aware of p.f. away in the late ninety's the district administration provided extensive information and regular updates to the citizens of altitude in the meantime carbon filtration systems have been installed so that the entire population has access to p.f.a. way free drinking water. so could i phone call. was produced and used that gandalf chemical complex for over four decades until two thousand and eight for way was in the air and the plants waste water which is channeled into the river it's the chemical ultimately seeped into the region soil and ground water the u.s. company responsible three m. has agreed to pay for activated carbon filtration systems to purify the drinking water supply for the next fifty years but this doesn't fix the contamination of the soil and groundwater we asked three m. to comment. three m. commissioned a detailed soil investigation it concluded that the most significant intake of p.f. away for people in the district is through consumption of drinking water. the state offic

even though many citizens knew nothing about it p.f. away has been saying for decades district administrators say they didn't warn citizens sooner because the concentration was always under the guideline value district environmental protection head says there was and is no cause for alarm is a site that's team up here for it and i've been for it so ever since the authorities were made aware of p.f.a. in the late ninety's the district administration provided extensive information and regular updates to the citizens of alcatel in the meantime carbon filtration systems have been installed so that the entire population has access to p.f.a. way free drinking water. so can i phone call. was produced and used that gandalf chemical complex for over four decades until two thousand and eight p. a freeway was in the air and the plants waste water which is channeled into the river it's the chemical ultimately seeped into the region's soil and groundwater the u.s. company responsible three m. has agreed to pay for activated carbon filtration systems to p

edmund has lost a part of his home to p.f. away he hopes he won't lose his health to it p.f. away will be officially banned throughout the e.u. as of july twenty twenty but the full scale of the problem won't become clear for decades to come. we meet teenagers from around the wells and well the simple life. ok cheat. today are global teen comes from colombia. don't call us contrast nobleness i'm sixteen. there we were and i live in the same paper and the department of says i am columbia . my house siblings too since i was on two brothers one of the boys is my twin girls are four and eleven years old and say on your feet on the my twin brother is sixteen like me and my big brother is eighteen like you. mean by that my father works in construction and he also fishes here in the sea and i got enough enough i thought. my mother was a house lawyer she also owns money by cooking for other people you like and if. you make i guess i'm fascinated by the lessons because i want to learn so that i can get ahead. in life are each time i like to do homework or read up on things we don't lea

commissioned a detailed soil investigation it concluded that the most significant intake of p.f. away for people in the district is through consumption of drinking water. the state office for health and food safety was unable to detect any relevant concentrations from the food chain industry and authorities are currently discussing how best to manage the soil within the district. according to that twenty eighteen study over one hundred ninety two square kilometers around the chemical park are contaminated however it concluded that the levels represented no endangerment organic farmer and there has been more fire and his wife have four young children they all have at least ten times too much beer for way in their blood even his animals have tested positive for the chemical many familiar for all of my family and i moved here eight years ago at that point we had no p.f. away in our blood now were heavily contaminated stock to last it. out much for all that doesn't last the all i'm shocked by just how fast our levels got so high it can't be just from the water it's from our animals in the