Before she died, Amara Strande defeated a Wall Street goliath to ban forever chemicals. In Australia, three of these chemicals will soon be banned – but Strande’s family want the entire class of compounds to be outlawed.
Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has confirmed the federal government will now effectively ban three of the most notorious “forever chemicals” made by US manufacturer 3M by the end of this year.
Amara Strande died in April, just weeks before Minnesota became the first place in the world to ban PFAS as a class of chemicals. “After a decade of stagnation and falling behind the rest of the world under the Liberals and Nationals, Labor is taking action on industrial chemicals including PFAS,” Plibersek said.By the end of 2023, nine toxic chemical groups listed on the Stockholm Convention including PFOA, PFOS and PFHxS will be listed on the Government’s Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management Standard.
“It’s just a matter of time when all PFAS or most PFAS chemicals are going to be banned completely,” Strande said. Overseas governments, including the United States and European Union, have linked certain types of PFAS to a slew of adverse health effects, including suppression of the immune system, raised cholesterol, hormone disruption and certain cancers.tracked down and interviewed Amara, then 16, at her home in Minnesota’s twin cities region. Only months earlier, she had spent 33 days in a coma after a volleyball-sized tumour was removed from her liver.
Scientists have speculated the cancer may be caused by something in the environment because it is triggered by a gene change that happens after birth.
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