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Pfas
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en PFAS.
en-GB Pippa Neill ‘I just want to know if it has caused my cancer’: life in the shadow of Lancashire Pfas factory The Guardian 2026-07-10 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/10/lancashire-pfas-factory-impact-contamination-forever-chemicals 0261-3077 Amid rising global concern over the harmful impact of Pfas chemicals on human health and the environment, in 2024 the local council and the Environment Agency (EA) initiated an investigation into historical emissions from the site. https://web.archive.org/web/20261018133139/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/10/lancashire-pfas-factory-impact-contamination-forever-chemicals 18 October 2026