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What’s the forever chemical TFA doing in the UK’s rivers?

By Daniel Drage, Associate Professor of Environmental Health, University of Birmingham

Most UK rivers are contaminated by a chemical called trifluoroacetic acid (TFA). This is a type of human-made chemical known as perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS), often called “forever chemicals”.

This widespread contamination highlights the extensive scale of work required to remove synthetic forever chemicals from our environment.…

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