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Long term trends of legacy per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), their substitutes and precursors in archived wildlife samples from the German Environmental Specimen Bank
Science
9 Jun 2025 | Environ Int.
Decades of German wildlife records show that although banned C8 PFAS like PFOS have decreased, they are still persistent in gull eggs and fish livers, while longer-chain PFAS and newer short- and ultrashort-chain substitute levels are now increasing.
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Pre-regulatory actions as a driver for reduced PFAS emissions? Long-term trends and change points for human and environmental samples from Germany
Science
3 Jun 2025 | Environ Sci Eur
A long‑term analysis of German blood, wildlife and water samples found that levels of major PFAS chemicals peaked in the late 1990s–2000s and began dropping roughly a decade before formal bans, suggesting that early voluntary industry shifts rather than regulations triggered the first reductions and highlighting the need for swifter legal action to safeguard health and the environment.
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German insurers encouraged to exclude coverage of PFAS liability
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16 Apr 2025 | Euractiv
The insurance industry group hopes coverage limits “help speed up the development of alternatives” to forever chemicals.
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Prenatal Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Relation to Antibody Titers and Infections in Childhood.
Science
28 Jan 2025 | Environ Res
Higher prenatal exposure to PFAS is linked to weaker immune responses in children, leading to lower vaccine antibody levels and increased risk of infections, particularly respiratory illnesses, during early childhood.
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Non-target screening reveals 124 PFAS at an AFFF-impacted field site in Germany specified by novel systematic terminology
Science
28 Oct 2024 | Anal Bioanal Chem
A 2008 fire incident in Reilingen, Germany led to significant contamination from aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF), prompting a study that used advanced analysis techniques to identify 124 PFAS in the soil, highlighting the complex environmental impact of AFFFs and the need for consistent terminology and thorough contaminant characterization for effective mitigation.
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FLUOROS 2023
Events
31 Aug 2023
An International Symposium on PFAS in Idstein, Germany.
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EU proposal would ban 10,000 PFAS
Policy
7 Feb 2023
Restrictions aim to reduce emissions to the environment and make products safer for people.
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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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Virtual briefing - Update on the universal PFAS restriction proposal and F-gases
Policy
12 Apr 2022
The video is an update on the progress with the EU restriction proposal for PFAS which is being developed by Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, with a special focus on F-gases and their applications.
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3M Under Fire In Belgium Over Company’s Handling of PFAS Pollution
News
14 Sep 2021 | Star Tribune
Decades-old pollutants raise fresh concerns as company, regulators work out remediation plan.
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[PRESS RELEASE] The EU bans 200 PFAS substances on Swedish initiative
News
26 Aug 2021 | The Swedish Chemicals Agency
This is part of the initiative to create a non-toxic circular economy both nationally, within the EU and globally, so that products and goods are non-toxic from the beginning.
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High concentrations of ‘forever’ chemicals being released from ice melt into the Arctic Ocean
News
27 Jul 2021 | Phys.org
The research has shown these chemicals have traveled not by sea, but through the atmosphere, where they accumulate in Arctic sea ice.
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Efforts underway in Europe to ban PFAS compounds
News
23 Jul 2021 | Chemistry World
The five European countries are proposing to ban the entire class of chemicals.
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Long-term leaching of PFAS from contaminated agricultural soils in Germany
Science
19 Apr 2021 | J. Contam. Hydrol.
Analysis of field data over a time period of 12 years revealed no or slowly decreasing trends as well as seasonal fluctuations, likely due to the ongoing transformation of precursors and a seasonal influence on production rates of mobile PFAS.
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Exploring Unknown Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in the German Environment – the Total Oxidizable Precursor Assay as Helpful Tool in Research and Regulation
Science
7 Apr 2021 | Sci. Total Environ.
Time trend analysis showed decreasing trends for most detected PFAS since 2005 with the results demonstrating that target analysis detects only a minor fraction of the PFAS burdens in environmental samples.