🛑 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.
Multiple studies and publications confirm it. At CASC4DE, we regularly share this data and illustrate this reality with concrete examples (link):
An unprecedented case of water pollution has been detected in 17 rural municipalities across the Ardennes and Meuse departments in northeastern France.
In Dalton, Georgia — known as the “Carpet Capital of the World” 🧶 — a silent crisis is unfolding. Residents have discovered alarmingly high levels of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), the so-called “forever chemicals” 🧪, in their water 💦 and environment 🌱.
🧪 PFAS, the Eternal Pollutants PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are synthetic chemicals that persist in the environment and accumulate in living organisms.
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A groundbreaking study published on October 17, 2024 and led by research teams from the University of Birmingham and Shenzhen University, under the direction of Stuart Harrad and Yi Zhen, has revealed alarming levels of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), often called “forever chemicals,” in bottled and tap water worldwide.
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