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In all the regions of Italy where surveys have been carried out to search for PFAS, perfluoroalkyl substances produced by industries and associated with numerous pathologies, they have been found.This is what emerges from the results of a recent report published by Greenpeace, entitled "PFAS contamination in Italy", which recorded the presence of PFAS in the waterways of 16 Italian regions, all those in which research has been carried out.The investigation was carried out using ISPRA data, whose database hosts the results of the analyzes carried out by the regional ARPAs and autonomous provinces in Italy in the period between 2019 and 2022 on the presence of PFAS in water bodies, i.e. rivers, lakes and groundwater.According to these statistics, PFAS contamination is present in 17% of test results. The percentage of positive values ​​for PFAS varies depending on the region being examined, as well as the accuracy of the surveys carried out by the relevant bodies.Spe...

One additional death every three days:This is how we can summarize what emerges from a new study that he calculated the increase in mortality from 1985 to 2018 within the Veneto red area:the area which includes 30 municipalities and the provinces of Vicenza, Padua and Verona where PFAS substances have poisoned hundreds of thousands of people.The research - conducted by scientists from the University of Padua, subjected to peer review and published in the scientific journal Environmental Health – was commissioned by the Veneto region and thanks to the contribution of the Statistical Service of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and the NO PFAS Moms group, it highlighted how in 34 years it is as if the total population of the municipality of Orgiano and Asigliano had disappeared, demonstrating for the first time the causal association between exposure to Pfas and elevated risk of death from cardiovascular diseases.“The result was heavy,” commented a spokeswoman for...

After having conducted an investigation that shed light on the presence of PFAS - poly and perfluoroalkyl substances - in the drinking water of dozens of municipalities throughout Piedmont, in recent days the Greenpeace Italia association has officially presented four complaints to the Turin Prosecutor's Office, Ivrea, Alessandria and Novara, asking the judiciary to take "all the necessary precautionary measures" in order to "prevent the continued administration of waters containing PFAS”.In the complaint, Greenpeace urged the magistrates to ascertain whether, considering the state of permanent pollution of the areas in question, "the conditions exist to hypothesize crimes of environmental or unnamed disaster", as well as "omission of official acts resulting in failure to comply with the legislation on access to documents".Despite the insight that emerged from the Greenpeace investigation, in recent days the Health Councilor Luigi Icardi has tri...

After the large cases in Veneto, followed by those in Lombardy, PFAS contamination of drinking water has also been reported in Piedmont, where in addition to the already known case of Alessandria, other pollution situations have been identified in over 70 municipalities of the metropolitan city of Turin , including the capital.The one reporting it is a relationship shared yesterday by Greenpeace, which is based on official data from the Piedmontese public bodies for which the association has mandated access instance;in addition to this type of data, Greenpeace has conducted studies independently, carrying out sampling in areas where, unlike those of Turin and Alessandria, the possible presence of PFAS it is not monitored, finding its presence in the Novara area.According to the environmental association, in the Piedmont Region they are approximately 125,000 people who may have drunk water contaminated by PFAS, given that it once again denies the narrative we have become accustomed to a...