The high rate of “eternal pollutants” is due to contaminated soils in municipalities located near a factory of the ARKEMA chemical group.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
The Rhône prefecture warned, Tuesday, January 17, against the high rate of polyfluoroalkylas and treacherous substances (PFAS) found in eggs withdrawn from Poulaillers of individuals in Oullins and Pierre-Bénite, southwest of Lyon, calling for not consuming them.
The samples, taken “within the framework of environmental surveillance carried out by state services”, revealed PFAS levels, known as “eternal pollutants”, eight to sixteen times higher than regulatory values, according to a Communiqué published Tuesday evening . “The presence of these PFAS in the eggs would be explained by the contamination of the soil: by pecking, the hens contaminate and then contaminate their eggs”, explains the prefecture.
The prefecture recommends not consuming product eggs and not consuming poultry flesh. It extends this recommendation to the neighboring cities of Saint-Genis-Laval and Irigny.
a Pierre-Bénite is the site of the chemist Arkema, where rebellion extinction activists had carried out an action in December to denounce “environmental pollution”. The factory is located in what is known as “the valley of chemistry”.
a plan against the PFAS presented by the government
Tuesday, France unveiled its action plan against the PFAS and displayed its support for a project to restore their manufacture and their use led by several European countries. Among the measures announced, the government has unveiled an “identification approach for industrial sites potentially issuing significant quantities of PFAS”.
The Arkema site of Pierre-Bénite must be “foreshadowing” this identification and decrease process, it was specified during the announcements of the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
Perfluorés and polyfluoroalkylates are a family of synthetic chemical compounds bringing together more than 4,700 molecules suspected, for some, of having a harmful impact on health. They owe their nickname to their very long life cycle.