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Cocktail of almost 500 different chemicals found in waterways

Watershed analysed Environment Agency data for ITV News and the Guardian to reveal that a cocktail of almost 500 different chemicals, some of which are banned and almost half of which are classed as “very toxic” or “harmful”, have been found in English waters.

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