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

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

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.

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