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NORMAN Workshop: Monitoring PFAS in Support of the European Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability
Events
1 Sep 2022
This workshop aims to involve policy-makers and experts from regulatory agencies, environmental research, NGOs, industry, and remediation technology suppliers. It will be arranged as a hybrid workshop with ca 100 seats available for physical participation, online video access, and an online poster session.
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EPA and Government of Flanders, Belgium Pledge to Share Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Information on PFAS and other Fluorocarbon Chemicals
Policy
24 Aug 2022
This week, EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance signed a Statement of Intent with representatives from the Government of Flanders, Belgium pledging to share publicly available information on enforcement and compliance assurance issues related to PFAS and other fluorocarbon chemicals.
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Are cosmetics a significant source of PFAS in Europe? product inventories, chemical characterization and emission estimates
Science
21 Jul 2022 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
Annual European-wide cosmetic-related total fluorine and extractable organic fluorine emissions to wastewater and solid waste ranged from 17-38,000 kg F per year and 37-5100 kg F per year, respectively, representing a high emission source that is still lower than emissions from washing PFAS-coated textiles.
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Widespread Occurrence of Non-Extractable Fluorine in Artificial Turfs from Stockholm, Sweden
Science
6 Jul 2022 | ES&T L
Fluorinated substances in artificial turf were found to most likely be polymeric organofluorine (e.g., fluoroelastomer, polytetrafluoroethylene, and polyvinylidene fluoride), consistent with patent literature.
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European teenagers are high – on PFAS
News
30 Jun 2022 | ChemSec
Teenagers in Europe have high levels of PFAS in their blood, especially Swedish, French and Norwegian ones, an EU human biomonitoring study shows.
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Target and suspect screening of 4,777 per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in river water, wastewater, groundwater and biota samples in the Danube River Basin
Science
13 Jun 2022 | J. Hazard. Mater.
82 PFAS were detected in Europe’s second largest river basin with many at concentrations of environmental concern.
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3M’s ‘Forever Chemicals’ Crisis Has Come to Europe
News
9 Jun 2022 | Bloomberg
Then she tested herself. She had about 300 micrograms of PFOS per liter in her blood, more than 60 times the level recommended as safe today by the European Union.
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Commissioner Sinkevicius' speech at the high-level conference on PFAS
Policy
17 May 2022
The Commission has therefore decided to start the process of banning all PFAS in fire-fighting foams.
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Ultra-Short-Chain PFASs in the Sources of German Drinking Water: Prevalent, Overlooked, Difficult to Remove, and Unregulated
Science
17 May 2022 | ES&T
Ultra-short-chain PFAS represent a major challenge in drinking water due to their high concentrations, greater mobility, and lack of remediation options, which shows that regulation through preventive measures is required to manage them.
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EU unveils plan for ‘largest ever ban’ on dangerous chemicals
Policy
26 Apr 2022
Thousands of potentially harmful chemicals could soon be prohibited in Europe under new restrictions, which campaigners have hailed as the strongest yet.
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Rare PFAS factory shutdown in Belgium costs 3M
News
13 Apr 2022 | Star Tribune
3M has faced an avalanche of lawsuits and regulatory actions over PFAS but only once has a plant been forced to stop producing the controversial chemicals.
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Perfluorinated alkyl substances in Canadian human milk as part of the Maternal-Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals (MIREC) study
Science
12 Apr 2022 | Sci Total Environ
Primiparous women had elevated PFAS concentrations in milk relative to women who had children previously, and the region of material birth did not influence PFAS concentrations.
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Healthy eating index and diet diversity score as determinants of serum perfluoroalkyl acid (PFAA) concentrations in a national survey of Swedish adolescents
Science
6 Apr 2022 | Environ. Res.
Adolescents with a healthy dietary pattern had on average higher PFAA serum levels.
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Temporal Trends of Organochlorine- and Perfluorinated Contaminants in a Terrestrial Raptor in Northern Europe over 34 Years (1986-2019)
Science
31 Mar 2022 | Environ Toxicol Chem
Most legacy organochlorines and PFOS have not reached lower, stable background levels, and voluntary elimination of PFCAs still have not resulted in declining levels in tawny owls in central Norway.
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UK's safe level for tap water too high - scientists
Policy
18 Mar 2022
Scientists are concerned that the allowable levels of toxic PFAS - known as "forever chemicals" - in UK drinking water are too high.