Environment Agency Warning on PFAS Foams

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‘Chronic threat’ of PFAS firefighting foams raised in 2003 secret UK report

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200 -page report obtained by the Ends Report via a freedom of information request.

Consultants commissioned by the Environment Agency conducted an environmental review of firefighting foams with a “particular emphasis on their fluorosurfactant content” Fluorosurfactants are a type of PFAS a group of about 10,000 chemicals linked to a wide range of serious illnesses.

They are now known as “forever chemicals” because they do not break down in the environment.

Angus Fire has not breached any rules in terms of the PFAS it has produced or tested at its Bentham site, and it stopped testing PFAS foams there in 2022 .

Angus Fire customers were able to procure training foam to train their firefighters which do not contain PFAS chemicals.

Department for Environment , Food and Rural Affairs said: “ Britain ’s nature is in crisis”.

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