In October 2025, at the 31st International Senology Meetings in Strasbourg, the team led by Prof. Carole Mathelin (ICANS | Institut de cancérologie Strasbourg Europe) presented preliminary findings showing a link between environmental exposures and breast cancer.
For the first time, Anses has compiled an unprecedented dataset of 2 million entries covering 142 PFAS across all media in France: environment, food, consumer products and human biomonitoring.
Around the AGC Chemicals site in Lancashire, regulators responsible for environmental monitoring are not testing for the very substance the factory produces and emits: EEA‑NH₄, a PFAS used in the manufacturing of non‑stick coatings (including cookware 🍳).
A recent study from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, conducted with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission and presented in early October 2025, reveals the presence of PFAS in saltwater fish caught in the Cape Fear River estuary.
The issue of “forever chemicals” has resurfaced in drinking water supplies in the Vosges region. 🚰 A New Restriction in Tendon On Monday, 20 October 2025, the prefecture declared the drinking water of Tendon (Vosges) unsafe for consumption for sensitive individuals due to an exceedance of the limit for the sum of 20 PFAS.
An investigation by journalists Emilie Rosso (France 3 Lorraine Champagne-Ardenne) and Nicolas Cossic (Disclose) reveals, for the first time in the agri‑food sector, the presence of PFAS—so‑called “forever chemicals”—within the production chain of Cristal Union, the company behind the sugar brand Daddy.
🛑 In response to PFAS contamination in 13 communes in the Ardennes, the prefecture announced on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, a ban on the spreading of sludge within the affected area to prevent any additional input of PFAS into soils and drinking-water catchments during the investigation phase.
🇪🇺 On September 23, 2025, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement to “update environmental quality standards for a number of pollutants and add new ones, aligning the EU’s water policy with the latest scientific evidence”.
📌 The burden of an industrial legacy On September 18, 2025, the public agency Brussels Environment presented to the Commune of Uccle – Gemeente Ukkel the very first analysis results around the former Sicli site 🧯.
A recent study published in Environmental Health Perspectives suggests this unsettling possibility. Researchers followed 200 infants in New York State, led by Kristin Scheible (University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry), focusing on prenatal exposure 🤰 to PFAS — fluorinated compounds known as “forever pollutants” because of their persistence in the environment and the human body.
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