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Uncertainty over health impact of chemicals in fire-fighting foam
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Uncertainty over health impact of chemicals in fire-fighting foam
Thursday 26 April 2018, 04:45 PM

Some New Zealand firefighting activity has led to surface contamination with perfluorinated chemicals
Persistent organic chemicals and their pollution of groundwater around firefighting activities has been in the spotlight, but the evidence of causation of ill health is still remarkably inconclusive. David McBride, associate professor in occupational health at Otago University Medical School, reports
As a youth, this author did his fire service training with the Fire Authority of Northern Ireland, as part of my Duke of Edinburgh’s Award service. Th
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