The PFAS scandal in Kallinge broke in 2013, when the county administration in Blekinge carried out an extended sampling of environmental toxins in the groundwater. The Brantafors water plant in Kallinge was shut down when the municipal company Ronneby miljö og teknik found high levels of PFAS in the drinking water. According to a new report commissioned by the defense, the leak continues.
The Supreme Court has previously concluded that high levels of PFAS in the blood can be seen as personal injury and that it should therefore be possible to seek damages if the cause is contaminated drinking water, something which the Swedish Armed Forces rejected.