Eternal pollutants: packaging, pots, clothes... Can we replace irreplaceable PFAS?.
PFAS have permeated modern life since the 1940s and 50s. The most dangerous are “the smallest, the most mobile,” Mehran Mostafavi, deputy scientific director of CNRS Chemistry, told AFP. Based on ongoing European work, the French government presented on Thursday a plan to ban as quickly as possible PFAS intentionally added to toys, textiles or cosmetics.