United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 68564
Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances
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21 October 2022
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31 October 2022 · Answer
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31 October 2022
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of prohibiting all non-essential use of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
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21 October 2022
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of prohibiting all non-essential use of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
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31 October 2022
Answer
PFAS represent a group of thousands of chemicals, with hundreds used commercially across many sectors of industry and society. There is increasing evidence of the occurrence of PFAS in the environment and, once in the environment, PFAS are persistent. The...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-10-21/68564
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1525054
- uk · wq-1525054 · source updated 31 October 2022