It really feels depressing that my child, who is almost nine years old and was born two years after they shut down the waterworks in Kallinge, has almost as high levels of PFAS in the blood as I have, says the girl's mother to SVT.
The eight-year-old is the youngest of the over 170 people who are entitled to compensation from the municipal water company Ronneby Miljö och Teknik after the PFAS scandal.
The issue has been driven by the PFAS Association and in 2023, the Supreme Court announced that it can be seen as a personal injury to have high levels of PFAS in the blood and that it should therefore be possible to seek compensation if the cause is contaminated drinking water.
Other residents in Kallinge who drank the water but did not participate in the lawsuit only had a short time to file compensation claims, since the statute of limitations then expired.
It has not yet been determined how large the compensations will be.
