The proposed restriction of PFAS across the EU continues to progress and could potentially impact various sectors, including for example aerospace and defence, automotive, aviation, food contact materials, textiles, leather and apparel, construction and household products, electronics, firefighting, food processing, and medical articles.
The proposed restriction of PFAS across the EU continues to progress and could potentially impact various sectors, including for example aerospace and defence, automotive, aviation, food contact materials, textiles, leather and apparel, construction and household products, electronics, firefighting, food processing, and medical articles.
As a recap, the proposed restriction aims to address the risks to human health and the environment posed by the use of PFAS. The more than 10,000 substances in the scope of the proposed restriction are aligned with the OECD definition of PFAS being “any substance that contains at least one fully fluorinated methyl (CF3-) or methylene (-CF2-) carbon atom (without any H/Cl/Br/I attached to it)”. Included in the OECD definition but excluded from the scope of the proposed restriction are a few fully degradable PFAS subgroups that are described in the proposal by their key structural elements.
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