The first results of this study will be unveiled in the coming months. There Rouen and Serqueux near Forges-les-Eaux. They participated in the first hair collection campaign led by the association of victims of Lubrizol. It consists of detecting pollutants.
The first results of the study will be revealed in the coming months
“We will search 1,800 organic pollutants and 49 metals in the hair“, explains Simon de Carvalho, the president of the association of the victims of Lubrizol. “We will be able to study its pollutants. We will finally be able to make a map with this or that pollutant“, he adds.
– Bradley de Souza
This approach is not necessarily linked to Lubrizol explains the association. “Lubrizol, that was the observation in fact, the observation of saying that a disaster like this, we could not know what its impact was because we had no previous data. So here the idea is to provide the territory with tools to be able, if tomorrow we have an ecological or environmental disaster, we can refer to its data and see if there has been an impact or not on the environment. and on us”explains Simon de Carvalho.
The samples taken by doctors, the first results of this study will be revealed in the coming months. The association also wants to create an eco-citizen institute in Rouen. An establishment that could lead this kind of campaign if a disaster occurred.