"The factory is almost brand new, but its machinery is not: it comes from the former Miteni factory in Vicenza, Italy. Miteni closed down in 2018 after one of the worst environmental scandals in the country's recent history: after decades of producing Pfas forever chemicals, the company's management was brought to trial for contaminating water resources in an area where 350,000 people live."
"In 2011, scientists found extraordinarily high concentrations of Pfas in the plant's wastewater. Hundreds of thousands of residents had been exposed through drinking water. The worst-affected were Miteni's own workers. Ilario Ermetti, 69, who worked for decades in its fluorinated chemical department, showed one of the highest concentrations of Pfas ever recorded in human blood."
Miteni, an Italian chemical company that produced PFAS for decades, closed in 2018 after massive contamination of water affecting about 350,000 people. Former executives were convicted in June for causing environmental pollution and other charges and received prison sentences pending appeal. All of Miteni's equipment, patents and processes were transferred to Lote Parshuram MIDC in India, where a factory has begun producing PFAS again. Scientists detected extraordinarily high PFAS concentrations in Miteni's wastewater in 2011, and hundreds of thousands were exposed through drinking water. Long-term workers showed some of the highest PFAS blood levels ever recorded.
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