🚫 Widely used #PFAS-pesticide may be about to lose its EU approval.
📣 49 NGOs had raised this with the Commission and Member States, calling on them to ban the harmful substance.
More in our latest #TF4EU 👉 https://buff.ly/3Vs0kKv
Find the NGO letter here 👉 https://buff.ly/3BiaLcC
🚫 Flufenacet, used in #pesticides, may lose its EU approval after authorities concluded it is an endocrine disruptor!
💧 Flufenacet degrades into TFA, a highly mobile #foreverchemical widely found in waterways and tap water.
More in our latest #TF4EU 👉 buff.ly/3Vs0kKv
#WaterMatters
😳 NGOs criticise the #DraghiReport for misleading and inaccurate information on #chemicals.
🚫 NGOs rebutted claims that there is no alternative to #PFAS “to produce clean technologies”.
More in our latest #TF4EU 👉 buff.ly/4f6jBbM
💪 Environment Ministers hold the line on improving EU chemical safety rules
⚖️ They highlighted the need to balance #protection of people and the environment, competitiveness and innovation.
More in our latest #TF4EU 👉 buff.ly/4f6jBbM
#REACHrevisionNOW #ChemicalStrategy
🚨 Europe’s waters are suffering from persistent #chemicalpollution!
💧 Despite the EU’s water legislation, only 29.5% of European surface waters achieve good chemical status.
More in our latest #TF4EU 👉 buff.ly/4f6jBbM
#waterpollution #persistentchemicals
⚖️ The European Commission is being sued for renewing the marketing approval of flufenacet, a #PFAS-pesticide which is causing widespread water pollution via its degradation into TFA, a 'forever chemical'.
More in our latest #TF4EU 👉 buff.ly/3XF8Upr
#waterpollution
🚨 259 #chemicals have been identified as "persistent, mobile and #toxic", and "very persistent and very mobile", by the German Environment Agency.
😳 They suggest 29 of these should be prioritised for immediate regulatory action!
Read more in our latest #TF4EU 👉 buff.ly/3XF8Upr
🔎 Sectoral examination of the universal #PFAS restriction dossier continues in #ECHA.
📆 Opinions are expected in 2026.
Read more about the sectors analysed this week and the schedule for the remaining ones in our latest #TF4EU briefing 👉 buff.ly/4gxg9Z5
#PFASaction_EU #banPFAS
🇪🇺 @vonderleyen.bsky.social has presented the Commissioners-designate in charge of the #chemicals policy.
🧪 They are tasked with working on the new Chemicals industry package.
To find out who they are and what instructions they received, read our latest #TF4EU briefing 👉 buff.ly/4gxg9Z5
😳 #DraghiReport on EU competitiveness wrongfully provokes fear around #chemical safety regulations.
🧪 He states #REACH “empowers ECHA to adapt limits and impose bans at any moment” which is erroneous
More in our latest #TF4EU briefing 👉 buff.ly/3Xo183d
#REACH #PFAS #GreenTransition
🎉 The Internal Market Committee of the European Parliament voted to uphold the ambitious position of the previous legislature on the revision of the Toy safety law.
📄 The text will now be negotiated in trilogues.
More in our latest #TF4EU briefing 👉 buff.ly/47iRdAk
#toxicfreetoys
🇪🇺 Influential MEPs on #chemicals policy have been re-elected and have returned to the Environment committee.
🫵 These include @juttapaulus.bsky.social, Marie Toussaint, Martin Hojsik, Mohammed Chahim & Peter Liese.
More in our latest #TF4EU briefing 👉 buff.ly/3LIfVAp
🧩Is simplification the last piece in the puzzle of the REACH revision?
🇪🇺In her policy guidelines,
@vonderleyen.bsky.social
committed to revising REACH with the aim of simplifying this legislation.
Find out more in our latest #TF4EU briefing 👉 buff.ly/3YdAzjd
#ChemicalPollution
📢 @TheProgessives want a #REACH revision under the next legislature!
⚠️ This aims to address the European-wide public #health crisis.
Read more in our latest #TF4EU briefing 👉 buff.ly/3XUBpRN
#ChemicalPollution
📢 Environment Ministers are urging the Commission to stay ambitious with implementing the Chemical strategy for sustainability.
📲 Find out more in our latest #TF4EU briefing 👉 buff.ly/4eKPfwi
