Inside Fiskville firefighter cancer cluster and the people who exposed toxic foam | Australian Story

Описание: Firefighter Mick Tisbury spent years fighting to uncover an alarming chemical contamination scandal. Subscribe: https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5

Then, with no medical training, he found a way to help fellow firefighters and members of the public who were at risk of severe illness as a result of their unwitting exposure.

The experienced firefighter worked alongside a journalist to reveal the full extent to which carcinogenic chemicals and toxic firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals were misused at a volunteer firefighting training facility in rural Victoria.

Mick went all the way to the to the United Nations Stockholm Convention in Geneva to argue for worldwide bans on PFAS.

And on the way, he has come up with an ingenious solution to help people rid their bodies of these "forever chemicals".

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Statement | Spokesperson for the Commonwealth Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water https://ab.co/3CbEiSY
Statement | Australian Red Cross Lifeblood regarding PFAS https://ab.co/3Ca9K3Y
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