PFAS: where are these places where the eternal pollutants are present?

As a law to ban everlasting pollutants, also known as PFAS, is to be voted on by the National Assembly this Wednesday, April 4, let’s take a look at these everyday products they are featured in.

This Wednesday, April 4th, a bill banning PFAS, also known as “forever pollutants,” must be voted on. in the National Assembly. Used since the 1950s, these chemical compounds with non-stick and waterproof characteristics are in fact present in many of our everyday products.

Pollutants present in our blood

In many items, as we analyzed a few months ago, but also in cosmeticsIn the pots and pans (Tefal as a bonus), but also inside contact lenses. All these products then contain substances from the PFAS family, substances considered dangerous and harmful to health, or even carcinogenic.

And for good reason, since eternal pollutants are incapable of decomposing (as their name indicates), they therefore accumulate in nature: in the airIn the plansIn the to rain and also the animal blood and human blood. Furthermore, an investigation of Worldpublished in March 2023, estimates that more than 1,000 contaminated sites were largely ignored at the time, and of these, around ten were at levels considered hazardous.

Furthermore, their harmful nature is extensively analyzed in the documentary Toxic bodiesavailable on Youtube from March 23, produced by the environmental activist Camille Etienneas well as Solal Moisan AND William Dubois.