POPs in the news

08/06/2023 -

Transparency. That’s one of the most important things when it comes to getting rid of toxic chemicals. The problem is that there’s too little of it right now. But a new legislative proposal might change this. So-called product passports would increase chemical transparency and drive the market towards safer products. More:


Product passports can detoxify the market. But not everyone likes the idea

Transparency. That’s one of the most important things when it comes to getting rid of toxic chemicals. The problem is that there’s too little of it right now. But a new legislative proposal might change this. So-called product passports would increase chemical transparency and drive the market towards safer products. More:

07/06/2023 -

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) failure to effectively regulate seeds coated with highly toxic pesticides violates federal pesticide laws and is devastating pollinators, wildlife, and landscapes across the country, according to environmental groups who filed a lawsuit last week. More:

Neonicotinoids Assessment and Evaluation Neonicotinoid Seed Treatment Treated Seed: Waste and Recycling

Pesticide-Coated Seeds Are the Focus of a New Push for EPA Regulations

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) failure to effectively regulate seeds coated with highly toxic pesticides violates federal pesticide laws and is devastating pollinators, wildlife, and landscapes across the country, according to environmental groups who filed a lawsuit last week. More:

Neonicotinoids Assessment and Evaluation Neonicotinoid Seed Treatment Treated Seed: Waste and Recycling
07/06/2023 -

Secretly held documents from the two most prominent manufacturers of 'forever chemicals' show that industry leaders knew of the harmful health effects of some per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) long before they told the public. More:

Scientifc Research and Transparency Industry Documents on PFAS PFOS Lawsuits

These Companies Kept Silent About 'Forever Chemicals' For Decades

Secretly held documents from the two most prominent manufacturers of 'forever chemicals' show that industry leaders knew of the harmful health effects of some per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) long before they told the public. More:

Scientifc Research and Transparency Industry Documents on PFAS PFOS Lawsuits
06/06/2023 -

More than 1,400 pesticides contain active ingredients that meet Maine’s definition for the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, according to a new analysis of data from the state by Environmental Working Group researchers. More:

Defining Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) PFAS in Pesticides and Packaging PFAS Environmental Fate PFAS Health Effects U.S. Legislation on Pesticides and PFAS

Maine data unveils troubling trend: 55 PFAS-related chemicals in over 1,400 pesticides

More than 1,400 pesticides contain active ingredients that meet Maine’s definition for the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, according to a new analysis of data from the state by Environmental Working Group researchers. More:

Defining Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) PFAS in Pesticides and Packaging PFAS Environmental Fate PFAS Health Effects U.S. Legislation on Pesticides and PFAS
05/06/2023 -

I first started at ChemSec back in 2010. I remember my first task was to research and find out if investors factor in the risk of hazardous chemicals in their portfolio analyses. What I found out was that only 18 out of 152 asset managers and rating agencies within the realm of Socially Responsible Investments (SRI) did so. Far too few. More:

PFAS Lawsuit Settlements Towards Sustainable Investment

3 reasons why investors are suddenly interested in chemicals

I first started at ChemSec back in 2010. I remember my first task was to research and find out if investors factor in the risk of hazardous chemicals in their portfolio analyses. What I found out was that only 18 out of 152 asset managers and rating agencies within the realm of Socially Responsible Investments (SRI) did so. Far too few. More:

PFAS Lawsuit Settlements Towards Sustainable Investment
05/06/2023 -

Stephen and Sandra Swanson were eating dinner beside their Christmas tree in 2017 when a Navy official rang the doorbell with alarming news: Hazardous chemicals from firefighting foam, used during training exercises at a nearby military airstrip, had seeped into their well water. More:

PFAS in Aquatic Systems PFAS Toxicity and Health Effects PFAS: Legal Action and Regulation

States take matters into their own hands to ban ‘forever chemicals’

Stephen and Sandra Swanson were eating dinner beside their Christmas tree in 2017 when a Navy official rang the doorbell with alarming news: Hazardous chemicals from firefighting foam, used during training exercises at a nearby military airstrip, had seeped into their well water. More:

PFAS in Aquatic Systems PFAS Toxicity and Health Effects PFAS: Legal Action and Regulation
04/06/2023 -

The companies Chemours, DuPont and Corteva announced they have agreed to pay more than $1 billion to settle claims that “forever chemicals” contaminated public US water systems. More:

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)

Three companies agree to pay more than $1 billion to settle ‘forever chemical’ claims

The companies Chemours, DuPont and Corteva announced they have agreed to pay more than $1 billion to settle claims that “forever chemicals” contaminated public US water systems. More:

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
01/06/2023 -

A trickle of studies warning that the enormous variety of living things on Earth is diminishing has turned into a flood. The evidence for these losses within regions and globally is undeniable. But data on biodiversity, and what is causing its decline, is still patchy – restricted to some causes, some places and some species. That isn’t the case for birds in Europe, however. More:


Europe has lost over half a billion birds in 40 years. The single biggest cause? Pesticides and fertilizers

A trickle of studies warning that the enormous variety of living things on Earth is diminishing has turned into a flood. The evidence for these losses within regions and globally is undeniable. But data on biodiversity, and what is causing its decline, is still patchy – restricted to some causes, some places and some species. That isn’t the case for birds in Europe, however. More:

01/06/2023 -

Plastics contain toxic chemicals that can enter products and interact to create new harmful substances during the recycling process, a new report from Greenpeace and the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) shows. More:

Chemicals in Plastics

Recycling plastics “extremely problematic” due to toxic chemical additives: Report

Plastics contain toxic chemicals that can enter products and interact to create new harmful substances during the recycling process, a new report from Greenpeace and the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) shows. More:

Chemicals in Plastics
01/06/2023 -

Consumer groups are condemning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for allowing plastic containers made with toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” to continue being distributed across the economy – even though the agency is suing a top manufacturer over the dangerous compounds leaching into containers’ contents, such as food or personal care products. More:

Fluorinated Barrier Packaging PFAS in Food Containers

Plastic containers still distributed across the US are a potential health disaster

Consumer groups are condemning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for allowing plastic containers made with toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” to continue being distributed across the economy – even though the agency is suing a top manufacturer over the dangerous compounds leaching into containers’ contents, such as food or personal care products. More:

Fluorinated Barrier Packaging PFAS in Food Containers
01/06/2023 -

Several major agrochemical companies did not disclose to European Union authorities studies assessing the toxic effects of pesticide ingredients on brain development, research said on Thursday. More:


Firms withheld pesticide toxicity data from EU: study

Several major agrochemical companies did not disclose to European Union authorities studies assessing the toxic effects of pesticide ingredients on brain development, research said on Thursday. More:

31/05/2023 -

Scientists behind a new study discovered that two kinds of bacteria, Desulfovibrio aminophilus and Sporomusa sphaeroides, can break down chlorinated PFAS, a subgroup of PFAS used to repel water in packaging and electronics. The microbes are able to sever a key chemical bond in those PFAS, unraveling the compounds, rendering them harmless. More:


Scientists Identify Bacteria That Can Break Down ‘Forever Chemicals’

Scientists behind a new study discovered that two kinds of bacteria, Desulfovibrio aminophilus and Sporomusa sphaeroides, can break down chlorinated PFAS, a subgroup of PFAS used to repel water in packaging and electronics. The microbes are able to sever a key chemical bond in those PFAS, unraveling the compounds, rendering them harmless. More:

30/05/2023 -

KOS Nature-Powered Organic Plant Protein drinks and powders contain toxic “forever chemicals”, a recent filing with the California department of justice charges. The filing, made by the Environmental Research Center (ERC), a San Diego-based consumer protection nonprofit, states that its testing found PFOA, a dangerous PFAS compound, in five KOS products. More:


Consumer watchdog says KOS protein powder contains toxic PFAS

KOS Nature-Powered Organic Plant Protein drinks and powders contain toxic “forever chemicals”, a recent filing with the California department of justice charges. The filing, made by the Environmental Research Center (ERC), a San Diego-based consumer protection nonprofit, states that its testing found PFOA, a dangerous PFAS compound, in five KOS products. More:

29/05/2023 -

A team of researchers from around the world is urging the international community to recognize the full environmental and health threat of plastics and categorize them as persistent, bio-accumulative and toxic (PBT) pollutants. More:


It’s time to classify plastics as persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic pollutants

A team of researchers from around the world is urging the international community to recognize the full environmental and health threat of plastics and categorize them as persistent, bio-accumulative and toxic (PBT) pollutants. More:

29/05/2023 -

The World Health Assembly (WHA) approved a landmark resolution calling on the World Health Organization (WHO) to scale up its efforts to fight the impact of chemicals, waste and plastic pollution on human health and produce the data to back it up. More:


Landmark Resolution on Chemical Pollution Passes World Health Assembly

The World Health Assembly (WHA) approved a landmark resolution calling on the World Health Organization (WHO) to scale up its efforts to fight the impact of chemicals, waste and plastic pollution on human health and produce the data to back it up. More:

28/05/2023 -

The country has a long history of industrial pollution, including that which led to the Minamata disease of the 1950s and ‘60s. In that dark chapter in the nation’s history, thousands of people in and around Kumamoto and Niigata prefectures suffered from severe neurological symptoms after eating fish and shellfish, not knowing that they were laced with methylmercury released into the ocean and rivers by the regions’ chemical plants. More:


Japan slowly wakes up to health risks of PFAS ‘forever chemicals’

The country has a long history of industrial pollution, including that which led to the Minamata disease of the 1950s and ‘60s. In that dark chapter in the nation’s history, thousands of people in and around Kumamoto and Niigata prefectures suffered from severe neurological symptoms after eating fish and shellfish, not knowing that they were laced with methylmercury released into the ocean and rivers by the regions’ chemical plants. More:

25/05/2023 -

Only twelve companies account for a majority of the PFAS production in the world. PFAS production is hardly profitable, but the cost for society is massive. More:

PFAS Societal costs

The top 12 PFAS producers in the world and the staggering societal costs of PFAS pollution

Only twelve companies account for a majority of the PFAS production in the world. PFAS production is hardly profitable, but the cost for society is massive. More:

PFAS Societal costs
24/05/2023 -

Chemical cocktails that are harmful to wildlife have been found in 81% of river and lake sites tested in England, a study has found. Campaigners call for rigorous testing of waterways to protect species after analysis reveals scale of problem. More:


Chemical cocktails harmful to wildlife found in 81% of English rivers and lakes

Chemical cocktails that are harmful to wildlife have been found in 81% of river and lake sites tested in England, a study has found. Campaigners call for rigorous testing of waterways to protect species after analysis reveals scale of problem. More:

22/05/2023 -

Toxic PFAS chemicals, used in a multitude of consumer products during the last decades, are on everyone’s lips these days. In fact, if you are wearing lipstick, there’s a good chance that you, literally, have these cancer-causing chemicals on your lips. More:


The claim that PFAS are critical to the green economy is complete hyperbole

Toxic PFAS chemicals, used in a multitude of consumer products during the last decades, are on everyone’s lips these days. In fact, if you are wearing lipstick, there’s a good chance that you, literally, have these cancer-causing chemicals on your lips. More:

19/05/2023 -

If you put on a pair of soft contact lenses this morning you took a greater risk than you might realize. Soft lenses seem very eye-friendly; they’re smooth, comfortable, allow oxygen to reach the eye and, if they’re disposable, they don’t give bacteria any time to grow. What’s not to like? Well, one very important thing, actually. More:

PFAS Exposure PFAS in Consumer Products PFAS in Contact Lenses and Personal Care Products PFAS Management Reducing the PFAS Risk

All The Stuff in Your Home That Might Contain PFAS 'Forever Chemicals'

If you put on a pair of soft contact lenses this morning you took a greater risk than you might realize. Soft lenses seem very eye-friendly; they’re smooth, comfortable, allow oxygen to reach the eye and, if they’re disposable, they don’t give bacteria any time to grow. What’s not to like? Well, one very important thing, actually. More:

PFAS Exposure PFAS in Consumer Products PFAS in Contact Lenses and Personal Care Products PFAS Management Reducing the PFAS Risk
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