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10 Oct 2024
The Universal PFAS restriction: How valuable is industry input?
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) received over 5600 responses during the 6-month public consultation period of the Universal PFAS restriction. This is 10 times more than the previous record. To...
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02 May 2024
The complexity of regulating PFAS is not limited to Europe
In our Collaboration Platform event from 18-19 April 2024 we journeyed across the globe to hear from stakeholders in the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Japan, and China on best practices around regulati...
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09 Jan 2024
The PFAS restriction has an impact way beyond the chemical industry
The impact of the current PFAS restriction proposal under REACH – with 10,000 substances and a large number of uses in scope – goes way beyond the chemical industry. That is the key take-away from...
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02 Nov 2023
FPP4EU submits list of missed uses of PFAS to the stakeholder consultation
In response to the European Chemicals Agency’s public consultation on the universal PFAS restriction proposal, FPP4EU submitted a non-exhaustive list of 596 uses of PFAS that were missing from the d...
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21 Apr 2023
FPP4EU outlines a 6-point plan to reach a workable restriction proposal on PFAS
Members of FluoroProducts and PFAS for Europe understand and support a balanced regulatory action on PFAS. In response to the universal PFAS restriction proposal, the members of this group have formul...
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07 Apr 2023
Is your use not listed in the universal PFAS restriction proposal? Consider it banned.
The justification behind the Universal PFAS Restriction proposal according to Dr Audun Heggelund of the Norwegian Environment Agency is that PFAS are widely present in environment and humans, and are...
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