“We take the worries of residents seriously. The municipality draws up with various expert parties to be able to clarify that way,” said the municipality.

Local residents shocked

The use of the industrial waste product was discovered after a study by NU.nl, Investico and De Groene Amsterdammer. The Hofje in Muiden turned out to be one of the 115 places in the Netherlands where steel snails were used. Residents Responded shocked to the news.

“You want your children to grow up as healthy as possible. You wash your vegetables neatly, pay attention to everything and in the meantime they play with gravel in which metal remains. That is very strange,” local resident Orline Rijnja told NH News earlier.

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