{"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-eau-empoisonnement-yaphank","status":"publish","type":"practiceareas","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/fr\/domaines-de-pratique-2\/pfoa-eau-empoisonnement-yaphank\/","title":{"rendered":"PFOA Water Poisoning – Yaphank, NY"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"L'histoire derri\u00e8re la contamination par l'APFO \u00e0 Yaphank est tr\u00e8s similaire aux \u00e9v\u00e9nements inqui\u00e9tants qui se sont produits \u00e0 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 Naples Chkolnik<\/a> servir de voix forte aux victimes de la contamination par l'APFO \u00e0 Yaphank et ailleurs. Nous nous engageons \u00e0 tenir les entreprises responsables responsables de leur n\u00e9gligence et \u00e0 obtenir une indemnisation maximale pour les victimes et les survivants, et nous avons les ressources nationales pour que cela ne se produise pas.<\/p>\n

\u00c0 propos de la contamination par l'APFO \u00e0 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

Effets sur la sant\u00e9 de l'APFO<\/h2>\n

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\nD\u00e8s les ann\u00e9es 1960, DuPont a peut-\u00eatre men\u00e9 des \u00e9tudes secr\u00e8tes sur les effets de l'APFO sur la sant\u00e9 qui ont atteint des r\u00e9sultats inqui\u00e9tants. La recherche m\u00e9diatis\u00e9e n'a commenc\u00e9 que plusieurs d\u00e9cennies plus tard, et ces chercheurs sont arriv\u00e9s aux m\u00eames conclusions effrayantes. Pour les adultes, m\u00eame une ou deux particules microscopiques d'APFO dans un gallon d'eau entier suffisent \u00e0 provoquer\u00a0:<\/p>\n