Will Fitzgibbon
Senior Reporter and Partnership Coordinator at The Examination
Senior Reporter and Global Partnership Coordinator with @examinationnews. Former reporter @icijorg #panamapapers #pandorapapers (etc) #shadowdiplomats. CAMS
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Sep 25, 2024 |
theexamination.org | Will Fitzgibbon
U.S. private equity firms have bought up producers and distributors of a chemical compound known to cause brain damage, cancer and other illnesses, according to a new report. Blackstone and American Securities LLC, who control assets worth billions of dollars, have in recent years acquired operations in Canada and elsewhere that sell lead chromate, a toxic powder used in paint, on roads and machinery, and even in food, to brighten colors, add weight or withstand high temperatures.
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Jun 10, 2024 |
gijn.org | Will Fitzgibbon |Mia Malan
Imagine that just four industries were responsible for one-third of global deaths every year, but that this went underreported in the news. This isn’t fiction, but our reality, argued Will Fitzgibbon, at a panel on investigative health reporting at the 2024 International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. Fitzgibbon is a senior reporter and global partnership coordinator for The Examination, a new investigative health journalism outlet based in the US.
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Apr 23, 2024 |
theexamination.org | Will Fitzgibbon
A tribunal in the Republic of Congo has ordered a battery recycling factory to stop work immediately, siding with members of a community who alleged in a lawsuit filed last year that the plant has poisoned them with lead. Earlier this month, an administrative tribunal in Pointe-Noire, the economic capital of the central African country, ruled against Metssa Congo, one of the most high profile battery recycling companies in the region.
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Mar 1, 2024 |
nytimes.com | Christina Jewett |Will Fitzgibbon
Los registros indican que es probable que la canela del puré se haya contaminado con plomo al ser triturada en un molino de especias en Ecuador. La FDA no hizo pruebas para esta toxina. Sobres de puré de fruta con manzana y canela de WanaBana estaban entre los tres productos fabricados en una planta de Ecuador que se descubrió que estaban contaminados con plomo el año pasado. Credit...
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Feb 29, 2024 |
theexamination.org | Will Fitzgibbon
Over Christmas, I was at the home of my partner’s family in St. Louis, Missouri. As we baked cookies with the kids, conversation among adults turned to recent news: the recall of cinnamon applesauce pouches from the city’s biggest chain of supermarkets. Weeks earlier, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had announced the discovery of astronomically high lead levels in applesauce pouches, millions of which had been sold nationwide.
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