New PFAS Control Strategy in UN Call to Ban Chemical Group (1)

摘要

A United Nations committee’s recent recommendation to ban an entire group of persistentfluorochemicals will better protect communities, consumers, and workers, according to an internationalenvironmental organization.The Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee recommended last week that perfluorohexanesulfonic acid, or PFHxS, and 147 related chemicals be added to the U.N.'s Stockholm Convention. Thecommittee advises the 183 countries and regions that have ratified that global treaty, which controlschemicals that are toxic, build up in the food chain, persist in the environment, and travel far from wherethey’re made or used.