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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Beament

UNBELIEVABLE: Be more ambitious on restricting harmful forever chemicals government urged - The Untold Story

Scientists are calling on the UK to be more ambitious in restricting PFAS chemicals (Alamy/PA) -

The UK should enact wide-ranging restrictions on “forever chemicals”, which could have the potential to harm humans, scientists have urged.

A group of more than 50 scientists from the UK and around the world have written to ministers urging them to be more ambitious in their regulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, than the previous government.

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