Read the full article by Leonie Cater (Politico)
“This summer, residents of the northern French town of Villers-Saint-Paul received a disturbing warning: Don’t eat your chickens’ eggs.
Tests had revealed that local eggs contained a cocktail of potentially dangerous PFAS, or ‘forever chemicals,’ a group of man-made substances that do not break down and can cause serious health problems including cancer, liver damage and fertility issues.
How did these toxic chemicals get into the eggs? The answer was not entirely clear, but suspicion fell on a nearby factory run by U.S. chemicals giant Chemours, which produces PFAS.”…