Ratnagiri plant has machinery of ‘tainted’ Italian firm, emitting hazardous chemicals: Rohit Pawar

PUNE: (Dec 25) The machinery of a chemical plant recently set up in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri district was procured from a controversial Italian firm linked to health hazards caused by PFAS chemicals, and it is now emitting the same compounds, NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar has claimed.

State industries minister Uday Samant, however, said the chemicals in question are not being produced at the plant set up by Lakshmi Organic Chemicals in the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) area at Lote Parashuram, 225 km south of Mumbai.

In a post on X, Pawar claimed that PFAS chemicals released by Italian company Miteni had contaminated a reservoir, affecting over 3 lakh people in the Vicenza area in the European nation.