Public Health

🇪🇺 Water pollution: Update of the list of priority substances in surface and groundwater 💧🌍

🇪🇺 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”.

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🛩️ PFAS at UK Airports: Record Levels Detected at 17 Sites — Why It Matters for Water, Health, and Policy 🇬🇧

A new investigation reveals alarmingly high concentrations of PFAS (“forever chemicals”) in groundwater and surface waters at 17 airports across England.

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💧 PFAS Open Data — A Step Forward, But Interpretation Challenges Remain

The French government has released a massive database on PFAS contamination in water, with over 2.3 million analyses covering drinking water, groundwater, surface water, and industrial water — all available in open data.

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🧬 What If Our Immune System Carried Chemical Pollution Traces From Birth?

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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💧 Belgium: TFA Found in Bottled Water – First Field Survey Results Raise Concerns

A recent investigation by the Belgian media outlet Apache has revealed that three out of four bottled waters tested in Belgium contain TFA (trifluoroacetic acid)—a persistent and highly soluble PFAS compound.

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⚠️ PFAS in Drinking Water: Record Pollution Levels in France's Grand Est Region

An unprecedented case of water pollution has been detected in 17 rural municipalities across the Ardennes and Meuse departments in northeastern France.

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🌍 PFAS Pollution in Dalton, Georgia: When a Local Fight Becomes a Global Call to Action ⚖️💧

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 🌱.

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PFAS in Food: When “Forever Chemicals” End Up on Our Plates 🍽️

The latest report from Générations Futures (June 2025) reveals alarming levels of PFAS contamination in everyday food products across Europe — raising serious concerns about current regulatory thresholds.

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🧪 Scientists Warn Against Narrowing PFAS Definition for Economic Reasons

A group of 20 internationally recognized scientists has raised a red flag 🛑 over recent efforts to narrow the definition of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances).

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🍺 PFAS in Beer: When “Forever Chemicals” Crash the Aperitif

A recent scientific study has raised new concerns about the presence of PFAS—often called “forever chemicals”—in one of the world’s most popular beverages: beer.

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