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Polluted by PFOA

Daikin Industries kept PFOA pollution in Settsu City secret for years

Meeting minutes obtained by Tansa reveal the closed meetings between the corporation, the city, and the prefecture.

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Only a fraction of Japan's forced sterilization victims have received remediation

Tansa sent questions to all of Japan's prefectural governments. We found that most are not directly contacting victims.

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Polluted with PFOA

Daikin denied PFOA’s health effects, despite 69,000-person study proving its toxicity (11)

The chemical was also linked to eight heath effects “with high certainty” by the European Environmental Agency.

2022.02.17 15:49 　Nanami Nakagawa

Polluted with PFOA

Daikin claimed PFOA emission levels are confidential, Osaka Prefecture dropped issue(10)

Even now, the prefecture refuses to answer whether it has knowledge of PFOA emission levels.

2022.02.10 17:06 　Nanami Nakagawa

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