Lancashire residents have 'forever chemicals' in their blood – but what does it mean?

Call for more detail over Thornton-Cleveleys factory blood tests

Council wants information on how tests were carried out, to ensure residents are protected, it says.

Blood tests find 69% of those near Lancashire chemical plant had high-risk 'forever chemical' levels

Concern over forever chemical exposure is escalating in England's Lancashire County after blood tests showed most residents sampled near a chemical plant had elevated levels of PFOA.

Lancashire residents have 'forever chemicals' in their blood – but what does it mean?

When residents living near a chemical plant in Lancashire, recently had their blood analysed, many were found to contain high levels of PFAS…

High levels of ‘forever chemicals’ found in Lancashire residents’ blood – what I’ve learned from studying exposed communities for over a decade

Pickadook/Shutterstock.comWhen residents living near a chemical plant in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, recently had their blood analysed, many were found to contain high levels of Pfas (so-called “forever chemicals”). So what does this mean for their health? I have worked on that question for more than a decade, as more and more contaminated sites have been discovered around the world. The levels reported in Thornton-Cleveleys are higher than …

Cancer causing chemical found in town near factory

A cancer causing chemical has been found in residents of Thornton Cleveleys in Lancashire.

‘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. We had been speaking on and off for a while over her growing concern that her garden could be affected by pollution…