Dear members of the EU Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,
I am writing on behalf PAN Europe to share with you our latest report, Message from the bottle, revealing a dramatic rise in the concentrations of the ‘forever chemical’ trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) in European wines. These findings highlight the urgency to phase out sources of this significant yet largely overlooked pollutant, and particularly PFAS pesticides. With this letter, we urge you to support the EU ban of the PFAS active substance flutolanil and immediately proceed to withdraw the national authorisations of all pesticide products containing PFAS active substances, as required by the EU Pesticide Regulation.
