Cancers, asthma, diabetes, autoimmune diseases ... In Fos-sur-Mer, near Marseille, an abnormal number of diseases affects the inhabitants. The cause could well be the enormous pollution of this industrial region.
a group of scientists and citizens created the Eco Citoyen Institute. In 2011, they launched their own air quality measurements. Result: "air is 80% ultrafine particles, relates Philippe Chamaret, chemist and director of the Institute, and the chemical composition of air pollutants is extremely complex ".
The finer the particles, the easier they penetrate the body's barriers.
Factory smoke is already filtered. Is it possible to filter them even more?
In any case, the standards for measuring air pollution are obsolete. There is an urgent need to remedy this. https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/l- ... embre-2017