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🌿 Protecting people and the #environment from harmful #hormone/#endocrine disrupting #chemicals (EDCs) and persistent chemicals like #PFAS at UK, #EU & international levels
💪 @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu has pledged to deliver on the REACH revision.
📣“The REACH revision is essential, and we are working hard to get there”, she said at the ‘REACH revision 2025’ conference held by CHEM Trust and @healthandenv.bsky.social.
Read our latest #ToxicFree4EU ➡️ buff.ly/YqiKzCP
🤝 EU negotiators have agreed on new water quality standards for priority pollutants.
💧 For the first time, pharmaceuticals and the #PFAS, TFA, were added to the priority list of substances to be monitored and controlled.
Read our latest #ToxicFree4EU ➡️ buff.ly/YqiKzCP
#WaterPollution
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📝 The latest edition of Food for Thought features an interview with the @foodpackagingforum.org about their work, including their concerns about harmful chemicals in #FoodContactMaterials, and the measures needed to ensure safe and sustainable FCMs.
Read it here 💻 👉 buff.ly/W97LKh5
🌍⚡ The green transition must be truly green. Relying on PFAS #foreverchemicals is not the solution.
✅ The good news: over the past year innovative companies are proving that PFAS-free alternatives in green tech are possible, more in our new blog 👉 buff.ly/zIjPQu3
#GreenTransition #PFAS
Yesterday we co-hosted the REACH revision 2025: simpler, faster, bolder conference with @healthandenv.bsky.social in Brussels.
The day was filled with fascinating panels, presentations, and discussions. A huge thank you to all our speakers and participants who joined us for the day!
‼️Increasing levels of #bisphenols in the Northern South China Sea are a potential health threat to Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins.
🐟These #pollutants can build up in marine wildlife through the food web, putting apex predators like dolphins at risk.
Read more in our news story 👉 buff.ly/c0iYpxo
👏 Huge thanks to our brilliant speakers: @annagelderdmp.bsky.social, MP for South East Cornwall, Lorraine Beavers, MP for Blackpool North and Fleetwood, Sarah Moore, Partner at law firm @leigh-day.bsky.social, and Dr Shubhi Sharma, CHEM Trust’s PFAS expert.
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🧪 We had our fantastic fringe event yesterday afternoon at the #LabourPartyConference, all about PFAS!
Our panel led some great discussions covering a range of issues, including improving awareness of PFAS, and how MPs can take action on #PFASpollution.
🗓️ On Thursday, 2nd October, CHEM Trust’s Dr Anna Watson will be joining an expert panel at @leigh-day.bsky.social’s free event!
🧪 It is set to be a fascinating discussion about the urgent issue of chemical contamination and ‘forever chemicals’.
More info & how to register here ➡️ buff.ly/3AVJhvv
🐬 A recent study found concentrations of BPA alternatives are on the rise in a key habitat for the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin.
📣 A group ban on #bisphenols is essential to prevent the substitution of BPA with other similar, harmful chemicals.
Read more in our news story ➡️ buff.ly/c0iYpxo
⏰ Our #LabourConference2025 fringe event is tomorrow afternoon at 3pm!
🧪 We’ll be discussing #PFAS pollution, the parliamentary inquiry on PFAS, and more.
🫒 Refreshments will be provided
Follow the link for more details 👉
‼️ The Regulatory Scrutiny Board of @ec.europa.eu is expected to send its formal opinion on the #REACHRevision impact assessment today.
👎 It is expected to be negative, which could cause a significant delay to the revision process.
Read more in our latest #ToxicFree4EU briefing: buff.ly/g8mrLUk
🐬A new study reveals increasing levels of #bisphenols in a key habitat of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin.
⚠️While the levels of BPA have declined, substitutes like BPS are on the rise and may pose a potentially higher health risk to the dolphins.
Read more in our news story 👉 buff.ly/c0iYpxo
We’re looking forward to welcoming participants to our conference, ‘REACH revision 2025: simpler, faster, bolder’ on Monday!
If you’ve registered to attend, take a look at the agenda and find out more about speakers here ➡️ members.env-health.org/en/agenda/re...
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🫱🏾🫲🏼Tackling #climatechange and chemical #pollution should go hand in hand.
Thankfully, innovative companies across Europe are already driving PFAS-free innovation in:
☀️ Solar cells
🌬️ Wind turbines
🚗 Electric vehicles
⚡ Semi-conductors
🔥 Heat pumps
More in our blog: buff.ly/zIjPQu3
Our fantastic panel is made up of ➡️ MP for Newcastle-under-lyme @adamjogee.bsky.social as chair, MP for South East Cornwall @annagelderdmp.bsky.social, MP for Blackpool North and Fleetwood Lorraine Beavers, Leigh Day Partner Sarah Moore, and CHEM Trust’s PFAS expert Dr. Shubhi Sharma.
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⁉️How can Labour address the ever-worsening issue of #PFASPollution in the UK?
💡 CHEM Trust’s fringe event at #LabourConference2025 will discuss this with a panel of experts.
Follow the link for more details and how to RSVP 👉 buff.ly/wnoXTI2
🚨 Big water news from Brussels: EU institutions have just struck a deal on updated water pollution rules.
It includes tougher standards for PFAS, pesticides like glyphosate, and pharmaceutical pollution - but there's a catch.
The deal delays action until 2039…
Press release in comments ⬇️
🔎 The Council has begun examining the Commission’s proposal for an ECHA Founding Regulation.
📃 The Commission presented the proposal at the first meeting on 1 September 2025.
Read more in our latest #ToxicFree4EU briefing 👉 buff.ly/XYxgjgX
#ChemicalRegulation
🎤 CHEM Trust's Dr Anna Watson will be joining an incredible line-up of experts and community voices at @leigh-day.bsky.social’s free panel event on Thursday 2 October to discuss the urgent issue of chemical contamination and ‘forever chemicals’.
Register here to join us 👉 buff.ly/3AVJhvv
⚠️ 🐟 New @eeb.org report highlights widespread pollution of wild fish in seven EU countries with PFOS, a possible carcinogen.
40% of fish samples from Sweden had levels of PFOS that exceed current EU safety limits.
Read more 👉 buff.ly/iUdTH3g
#PFAS
Our Chair, Councillor @keithmeltonlibdem.bsky.social, HoL Peer and Defra spokesperson Baroness Grender, Deputy CEO of @europeanmovement.co.uk Emma Knaggs, and CHEM Trust’s Executive Director @mwarhurst.bsky.social.
21.09.2025 14:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you to our brilliant panel of speakers, who answered questions on everything from chemicals, to sewage sludge and air pollution:
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🌱 Earlier this afternoon we had our fringe event at the #LibDemsConference2025 with the @greenlibdems.org.uk.
🎉 Turn out was high, and we had some great discussions on how closer UK-EU collaboration could improve environmental protections!
🧪 PFOS have been found in European wild fish at levels exceeding current EU safety limits.
😬 @eeb.org highlights that the data only looks at PFOS, so the true picture of #PFAS contamination is likely to be much worse.
More in our latest news story 👉 buff.ly/iUdTH3g
#StopPFAS #HarmfulChemicals
⏰ Our #LibDemConference2025 fringe event is tomorrow at 1pm!
🧪We’re partnering with @greenlibdems.org.uk and we’ll be talking about the UK-EU reset, and what it means for #EnvironmentalProtection.
🫖 Light refreshments provided.
Find out more here ➡️
Our brilliant panel is made up of 👉 MP for Newcastle-under-lyme @adamjogee.bsky.social as chair, MP for South East Cornwall @annagelderdmp.bsky.social, MP for Blackpool North and Fleetwood Lorraine Beavers, Leigh Day Partner Sarah Moore, and CHEM Trust’s PFAS expert Dr. Shubhi Sharma.
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🤔 #PFASPollution in the UK is widespread – so what can we do to tackle it?
🔍 Our fringe event at #LabourConference2025 will discuss this with a panel of experts.
Follow this link for more details and how to RSVP 👉 buff.ly/wnoXTI2
❌ Environment coordinators in the European Parliament failed to agree on the procedure for the Chemicals #Omnibus.
💄⚠️ The Omnibus has been criticised for reducing the protection against very harmful substances, including #carcinogens.
More in our latest #ToxicFree4EU ➡️ buff.ly/XYxgjgX
