The results of the 800 blood samples taken will not be available until the end of October. Certainly until then, Flanders will continue to work with so-called no regretmeasures. Measures that you will not regret having taken afterwards.
“The most important thing is that people in the perimeters should not eat products from their own garden”, Vrancken repeats. After all, the intake of PFOS in the most polluted places, with the most important around the 3M factory, mainly occurs through food and less through inhalation. The substances are absorbed more through the digestive system than through the respiratory system.
Farmers are allowed to continue to market their products. “People who only eat from their own vegetable garden are only exposed to their own products. That is why their exposure is very high,” says Vrancken. “The advice is to vary, and in the average store you can find varied food from different sources.”
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