{"id":5907,"date":"2017-05-18T20:29:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T00:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/practiceareas\/pfoa-water-poisoning-yaphank\/"},"modified":"2022-06-21T16:54:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T20:54:49","slug":"pfoa-wasservergiftung-yaphank","status":"publish","type":"practiceareas","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/praxisbereiche-2\/pfoa-wasservergiftung-yaphank\/","title":{"rendered":"PFOA Water Poisoning – Yaphank, NY"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Die Geschichte hinter der PFOA-Kontamination in Yaphank ist den beunruhigenden Ereignissen sehr \u00e4hnlich, die sich ereigneten Camp Lejeune<\/a>. Almost from the day it opened in the late 1950s, the volunteer firefighters who attended the\u00a0Firematics Training Facility used\u00a0aqueous film forming foam that was laced with high amounts of\u00a0perfluorooctanoic acid in their practice drills. Over time, this chemical leaked into the surrounding groundwater. At first, environmental investigators hoped that only a handful of private wells were contaminated, but the damage was much worse than they had feared.<\/p>\n

Led by noted environmental law attorney Paul J. Napoli, the aggressive lawyers at Napoli Shkolnik<\/a> dienen als starke Stimme f\u00fcr die Opfer der PFOA-Kontamination in Yaphank und anderswo. Wir verpflichten uns, die verantwortlichen Unternehmen f\u00fcr ihre Fahrl\u00e4ssigkeit zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen und auch eine maximale Entsch\u00e4digung f\u00fcr Opfer und \u00dcberlebende zu erreichen, und wir haben die landesweiten Ressourcen, um dies nicht zuzulassen.<\/p>\n

\u00dcber die PFOA-Kontamination in Yaphank<\/h2>\n

In 2016, based on recently available research, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency added PFOA and other similar compounds to its list of dangerous chemicals. Unfortunately, this declaration came about fifty years too late to be of service for the toxic exposure victims on Long Island.<\/p>\n

Since it was first developed in the 1940s, and especially after DuPont acquired the rights to produce the chemical\u00a0several years later, manufacturers used PFOA in dozens of consumer and industrial products, largely because it created an artificial barrier between two forces, was cheap to produce, and was effective in very small quantities.<\/p>\n

PFOA is a key ingredient in Teflon, and because it forms a chemical wall between intense heat and almost anything else, it’s also a key component in firefighting foam.<\/p>\n

Because the chemical is so powerful, once it leaks into the water supply, it stays there almost forever. So, in 2017, Suffolk County officials issued a health advisory because the PFOA contamination in Yaphank exceeded .07 parts per billion, a level that the EPA considers hazardous for humans.<\/p>\n

Auswirkungen auf die Gesundheit von PFOA<\/h2>\n

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\nM\u00f6glicherweise hat DuPont bereits in den 1960er Jahren geheime Studien \u00fcber die gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen von PFOA durchgef\u00fchrt, die zu einigen beunruhigenden Ergebnissen gef\u00fchrt haben. Publizierte Forschungen begannen erst einige Jahrzehnte sp\u00e4ter, und diese Forscher kamen zu den gleichen erschreckenden Schlussfolgerungen. F\u00fcr Erwachsene reichen bereits ein oder zwei mikroskopisch kleine PFOA-Partikel in einer ganzen Gallone Wasser aus, um Folgendes zu verursachen:<\/p>\n