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PFOS ban recommended by Department of Environment, in order to ratify Stockholm Convention listing from 2009

By Carrie Fellner
Updated January 8 2018 - 12:10pm, first published January 5 2018 - 7:00am
A photo taken during training with firefighting foam containing PFOS at Tullamarine airport in 1998. Picture: United Firefighters Union, Aviation Branch
A photo taken during training with firefighting foam containing PFOS at Tullamarine airport in 1998. Picture: United Firefighters Union, Aviation Branch

THE Department of Environment has recommended a ban on the chemical at the centre of Williamtown's contamination disaster, which would bring Australia into step with 171 countries that have ratified a landmark United Nations agreement to phase out the chemical. 

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