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Consultation on PFAS draft opinion – Guidance for respondents
Policy
1 Mar 2026
The European Chemicals Agency plans to launch a consultation on the draft opinion of its Committee for Socio-Economic Analysis (SEAC) on the proposed EU-wide restriction of PFAS following the Committee’s meeting in March 2026.
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New EU-wide protections against PFAS in drinking water come into effect
Policy
12 Jan 2026
The new reporting system is simpler than under the previous Drinking Water Directive and reduces the amount of data to be reported. It is the first time systematic monitoring of PFAS in drinking water is being implemented in the EU.
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France’s ban on ‘forever chemicals’ comes into force today. Here’s what will change
News
6 Jan 2026 | Euro News
France’s ban prohibits the sale, production, or import of any product for which an alternative to PFAS already exists.
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Plasreco promotes PFAS-free coating solutions for packaging, leather and textiles
News
1 Jan 2026 | European Coatings
The Plasreco project is developing silicon-based functional coatings applied by atmospheric plasma as an alternative to PFAS-based treatments.
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EU study recommends excluding refrigerants from PFAS restrictions
Policy
20 Dec 2025
“Overall, substitution is not currently feasible given economic, technical, and safety constraints,” the report states. It recommends excluding F-gases completely from the scope of a universal PFAS restriction and instead focus all regulatory control of all F-gases into the existing F-gas regulation.
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High levels of ‘forever chemical’ found in cereal products across Europe – study
News
4 Dec 2025 | The Guardian
The study found trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a chemical produced when pesticides containing Pfas chemicals break down into the soil, in breakfast cereals, popular sweets, pasta, croissants, wholemeal and refined bread, and flour.
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Development and validation of an LC-MS/MS method for simultaneous determination of 39 PFAS in soil samples: applications to playgrounds in Attica, Greece
Science
4 Dec 2025 | Anal Bioanal Chem
An optimized research method was found to be a useful tool for environmental and public-health decision making by reliably detecting 39 PFAS in playground soils, and the results suggest that some PFAS levels may potentially exceed a precautionary child-health screening value of about 100 ng per kg of body weight per day.
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Lab-scale insights into the environmental fate of emerging contaminants from airport runoff
Science
1 Dec 2025 | J Contam Hydrol.
Laboratory evidence indicates that only some contaminants in airport runoff are naturally diminished during contact with sediments, whereas PFAS remain largely persistent, raising concerns about whether soil aquifer treatment can adequately protect groundwater from these chemicals.
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Toy safety: Parliament adopts new rules to enhance child health protection
Policy
25 Nov 2025
The new rules also ban the intentional use of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) and the most dangerous types of bisphenols.
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Swiss authorities impose ban on sale of PFAS-tainted fish
Policy
14 Nov 2025
Representative samples of the stocks showed that the Swiss federal food safety limits had been exceeded, the Lake Zug authorities declared on Friday.
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PFAS detected in Berlin’s water
News
4 Nov 2025 | The Berliner
Four out of five water samples in Berlin contain harmful 'forever chemicals' that exceed safety limits and pose serious health risks.
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Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water sources for 6 million people
News
2 Nov 2025 | BBC
The BBC assessed more than 2,000 individual test results from 2024, obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, to identify which specific PFAS compounds were being found when levels breached the limits. This showed that both PFOS and PFOA were found in more than 350 of the drinking water tests.
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Second public consultation on REACH PFAS Proposal – ECHA guidance for respondents
Policy
30 Oct 2025
This public consultation is expected to start by the end of March 2026, and it will last for 60 days.
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French Food Safety Agency Proposes PFAS Monitoring Scheme
News
27 Oct 2025 | Food Safety Magazine
The French National Agency for Food, Environmental, and Occupational Health and Safety has proposed an expanded monitoring scheme for PFAS based on a first-of-its-kind inventory of PFAS contamination and toxicity, comprising more than 247 “forever chemicals.”
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Emerging PFAS in Songbird Eggs from a Belgian Hotspot Site
Science
17 Oct 2025 | Environ Res
Songbird eggs collected near a fluorochemical plant in Belgium contained record-high levels of both legacy and emerging PFAS, including newly detected compounds like SF5-PFSAs and ether-substituted PFAS, showing that PFAS continue to accumulate in wildlife and should be included in future monitoring and risk assessments.