The analyzes carried out by the Paris prefecture of police did not detect any pollutant or compound, in particular sulfur, making it possible to explain the origin of this persistent smell in the air, halfway between the waters of the rotten egg and the aggressive note of ammonia.
No air pollution
To explain the curious phenomenon, the town hall of Paris, in the columns of our colleagues from Parisian, had raised the hypothesis of a mixing of the Parisian sewerage networks, attributable to heavy precipitation which would have caused decomposing gases to rise.
The mysterious smell of sulfur perceptible in Eure-et-Loir
Bad pick, according to the Paris public sanitation service, which specifies, in a press release, that the origin of this odor is not linked to the capital’s sanitation system. The measurements and analyzes carried out, failing to determine the cause of this odor nuisance, seem to exclude any health risk of air pollution and undoubtedly close, without explaining it, a case which perhaps smells of sulfur, in the sense clean, but it seems not figuratively.
Sébastien Couratin
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