An Ayrshire food company has been fined £75,000 for failing to install equipment to detect leaks of fluorinated gas (F-gas).
DSM Nutritional Products, which has a factory in Dalry, reported more than eight times the reporting threshold of F-gas – amounting to almost 900kg of CO2 equivalent.
According to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), the release - which made DSM one of Scotland’s three biggest polluters - was caused by a leak in four of the firm’s water chillers.
