Lawyers Urge Pushback After ECHA Declines To Review Revised PFAS Plan

August 27, 2025
Industry lawyers are urging domestic manufacturers to resist plans by European regulators to not submit a recently released amendment to a proposed universal PFAS ban to their scientific committees for review, saying they should press officials to consider the amendment, which adds eight product categories and exempts some applications from the rule. “Industries that benefit from the new derogations should weigh in during the public consultation on the [scientific committee’s] draft opinion, lobby the [European] Commission, and potentially the [European]...


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