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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.
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Getting control of PMT and vPvM substances under REACH
Events
25 Mar 2021
This workshop will feature case studies of selected, emerging PMT/vPvM substances that are attracting increasing attention (e.g. ChemSEC's SIN List).
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Human Biomonitoring (HBM)-II values for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) - description, derivation and discussion
Science
26 Jan 2021 | Regul Toxicol Pharmacol
The concentration of PFAS in the German population may lead to health impairment, compared to lower levels years earlier.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in Chinese and German river water - Point source- and country-specific fingerprints including unknown precursors
Science
8 Dec 2020 | Environ Pollut
This study aimed at comparing source-specific fingerprints of PFAS in river water from China and Germany selected as countries with different histories of PFAS production.
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German Federal Agency's International Conference: PFAS - Dealing with contaminants of emerging concern
Events
30 Nov 2020
The German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the German Environment Agency will be hosting a two-day international conference focusing on strategies on how to deal with PFAS-contaminated soil and groundwater.
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Reductive Defluorination and Mechanochemical Decomposition of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs): From Present Knowledge to Future Remediation Concepts
Science
13 Oct 2020 | Int. J Env Res. & Pub Hel.
Comparisons between existing PFAS decomposition reactions and reductive approaches are discussed in detail, regarding their applicability in possible remediation processes.