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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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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.
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European court rejects Chemours’s arguments on classifying a fluorochemical
News
27 Feb 2022 | c&en
Judges uphold decision that fluorosurfactant GenX is a candidate for strict regulation in the European Union.
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Spatial distribution and load of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in background soils in Sweden
Science
21 Feb 2022 | Chemosphere
Sixteen out of 28 measured PFAS were detected in forest soils across Sweden with concentrations of PFOS explained by population density. The estimated total PFAS sink in soil throughout Sweden was on the order of several tons.
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Hepatic Fatty Acid Profiles Associated with Exposure to Emerging and Legacy Halogenated Contaminants in Two Harbor Seal Populations across the North Atlantic
Science
7 Feb 2022 | ES&T
Several flame retardants and PFAS chemicals were significantly associated with changes in liver fatty acid profiles in seals from Maine and Sweden.
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No eating eggs from hens ‘in the whole of Flanders, Belgium’ due to PFAS contamination
News
7 Feb 2022 | The Brussels Times
Due to pollution from a 3M factory in the neighbourhood of Zwijndrecht in Antwerp, the government advised people living within a certain radius of the plant to stop eating eggs and vegetables from their hens and gardens.