InfoCons Consumers Protection informs you : Dangerous chemicals discovered in mineral water in Europe
A recent study conducted by PAN Europe and Global 2000, titled “TFA – The Forever Chemical in the Water We Drink” (published on July 10, 2024), highlights the urgent need to ban PFAS pesticides and fluorinated gases, two major contributors to the presence of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), an ultrashort-chain fluorinated chemical. The study found that TFA was present in nearly all 36 drinking water samples and in the majority of the 17 mineral water samples tested.
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Currently, no regulatory limits for TFA in drinking water have been established by the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Union, or individual Member States. Consequently, testing for this chemical has been limited. However, recent EU-level reassessments of TFA are expected to lead to the establishment of health-based limit values for drinking water.
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