‘You think you’re doing the right thing,’ says mother-of-five Sam Hammond from her garden in Thornton-Cleveleys, a small town north of Blackpool. ‘But I’ve been teaching my kids to eat poisoned fruit, poisoned veg and poisoned eggs.’
Two years ago, Sam noticed people taking soil samples from the Occupation Road Allotments which border her property. It emerged they were from the Environment Agency and they had been called in amid fears the land may have been contaminated by pollutants from the nearby AGC Chemicals Europe plant.
Between the 1950s and 2012, the manufacturing facility emitted 49 tons of highly carcinogenic Perfluorooctanoic acid
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