Adoption of the Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks on PFAS and TFA

Dear Commissioner, Dear Chair of the Environment Council, Dear Rapporteur,

We, the undersigned civil society organisations working together to phase out the use of harmful pesticides in agriculture, are writing to you urging you to take stronger action to protect European’s water resources from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) - and especially trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) a common and very persistent metabolite of PFAS pesticides.

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