Environment and EU climate ministers who met in Denmark on Thursday, were tested for the presence of “eternal chemicals” in the blood. The aim was to raise awareness of the problem of chemical pollution, which is often associated with serious health risks. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
So -called. Eternal chemicals, also known as PFAS or perfluoro -hydrogenled and polyfluoro -hydrophicled substances, are a group of synthetic chemicals whose decomposition takes extremely long. Chronic exposure to low levels of these chemicals is associated with liver damage, high cholesterol, reduced immunitylow birth weight and several cancers, AFP points out.
Blood from your finger is at an informal meeting in Aalborg according to the European Environment Authority let ministers from 18 states, including France, Germany and the Netherlands, were taken away. Blood samples will be tested for the presence of 13 PFAS substances, and the results should be known after the summer.
Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden have submitted a joint proposal to the European Commission for a ban on production, sale and use of almost all PFAS. “It is very important that we now take vigorous measures against pollution of PFAS, and therefore measures to prevent, restrict and remove PFAS must be taken across the EU,” He said in a statement by the Danish Minister of the Environment Magnus Heunicke.
