🚫 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

🎉 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.

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#toxicfreetoys

🚨 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

😳 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”.
 
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💪 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

⚖️ 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

🇪🇺 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.

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#ChemicalPollution

📢 @TheProgessives want a #REACH revision under the next legislature!

⚠️ This aims to address the European-wide public #health crisis.

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#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