MPs voted this week on a text aimed at limiting the distribution of products containing PFAS. Textiles, pharmaceutical products, stoves...
These substances, also called "eternal pollutants" due to their lifespan once in the environment, pose a real health problem. But what are we talking about? Europe 1 takes stock. PFAS are per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. A barbaric name to designate a family of thousands of chemical compounds, the use of which has exploded since the 1950s.