ScienceUN toxics rapporteur urges immediate ban on non-essential PFAS use
Chemistry World reports that the UN’s new toxics and human rights rapporteur has classified PFAS as a systemic threat to “many, if not all, human rights.”
TLDR
Chemistry World reports that current and former UN toxics advisers are urging an immediate ban on all non-essential uses of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The new special rapporteur on toxics and human rights classified the chemicals as a systemic threat to “many, if not all, human rights” and called for an immediate international phaseout and ban on non-essential use.
UN toxics rapporteur urges immediate ban on non-essential PFAS use
Chemistry World reports that the UN’s new toxics and human rights rapporteur has classified PFAS as a systemic threat to “many, if not all, human rights.”
TLDR
Chemistry World reports that current and former UN toxics advisers are urging an immediate ban on all non-essential uses of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The new special rapporteur on toxics and human rights classified the chemicals as a systemic threat to “many, if not all, human rights” and called for an immediate international phaseout and ban on non-essential use.