Otters among UK wildlife carrying toxic ‘forever chemicals’, analysis shows

Some wildlife species have accumulated many times more than safe amount of PFAS in their tissue and organs

• Revealed: drinking water sources in England polluted with forever chemicals
• Revealed: scale of forever chemical' pollution across UK and Europe

Dolphins, otters, porpoises, fish and birds across the UK have been found to have toxic forever chemicals" in their tissue and organs, analysis of official data has revealed.

Manmade chemicals called PFAS, known as forever chemicals because they do not degrade, are used in a wide range of consumer products and industrial processes and some have been linked to serious diseases in humans and animals, including cancers. PFAS have been found widely to pollute water and soils and are thought to be in the blood of every human on the planet.