Former beef industry leader Larry Acton believes industry bodies have ignored the potential threat of PFAS contamination in livestock. Video by Judith Maizey.
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00:00 Well, I think there's been a lot of knowledge that this has been an issue for 20 years now.
00:09 Our industry bodies seem to have ignored it totally.
00:15 Because there isn't an Australian residue level that's been set,
00:22 they haven't bothered both the industry organisations, the government departments,
00:28 none of them seem to have addressed this issue.
00:31 I'm outraged that groups like Cattle Council, the Ag Force Council,
00:37 Meat and Livestock Australia especially,
00:40 because they are supposed to be protecting our markets and developing new markets.
00:46 There's countries that we sell meat to that have now set PFAS, MRL levels in meat.
00:56 And we know, I know, just from my little bit of experience with our situation here,
01:03 that the level in the water here is much, much, much higher,
01:08 thousands of megajoules or whatever the measurement is,
01:15 higher than the EU level.
01:18 So surely our industry bodies need to start to address this.