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🌍 Our planet is facing a chemical pollution crisis, threatening both ecosystems and human health. This needs to change.
🧡 ChemSec involves lawmakers, businesses and institutional investors in the fight to turn things around.
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🧡 ChemSec involves lawmakers, businesses and institutional investors in the fight to turn things around.
➡️ chemsec.org
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November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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🔬 Part of the problem is that standard chemical testing doesn’t adequately detect all neurotoxic effects. The commonly used tests focus on more short-term toxicity.
❌ This results in major data gaps.
💡 But now, there is a way forward: chemsec.org/neurotoxican...
❌ This results in major data gaps.
💡 But now, there is a way forward: chemsec.org/neurotoxican...
November 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🔬 Part of the problem is that standard chemical testing doesn’t adequately detect all neurotoxic effects. The commonly used tests focus on more short-term toxicity.
❌ This results in major data gaps.
💡 But now, there is a way forward: chemsec.org/neurotoxican...
❌ This results in major data gaps.
💡 But now, there is a way forward: chemsec.org/neurotoxican...
🤔 Here is a crazy thought: what if we took the current logic of EU #chemicals legislation and applied it to traffic rules... How would that play out?
October 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🤔 Here is a crazy thought: what if we took the current logic of EU #chemicals legislation and applied it to traffic rules... How would that play out?
🧠 Unlike other harmful chemicals like PFAS, 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝘅𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 rarely make headlines — yet they’re among the most devastating.
💥 By adding three neurotoxicants to the 𝗦𝗜𝗡 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁, we demonstrate that some should be treated as “equivalent level of concern”.
👉🏾 chemsec.org/neurotoxican...
💥 By adding three neurotoxicants to the 𝗦𝗜𝗡 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁, we demonstrate that some should be treated as “equivalent level of concern”.
👉🏾 chemsec.org/neurotoxican...
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
🧠 Unlike other harmful chemicals like PFAS, 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝘅𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 rarely make headlines — yet they’re among the most devastating.
💥 By adding three neurotoxicants to the 𝗦𝗜𝗡 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁, we demonstrate that some should be treated as “equivalent level of concern”.
👉🏾 chemsec.org/neurotoxican...
💥 By adding three neurotoxicants to the 𝗦𝗜𝗡 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁, we demonstrate that some should be treated as “equivalent level of concern”.
👉🏾 chemsec.org/neurotoxican...
🇪🇺 After a negative opinion was issued by the Commission’s Regulatory Scrutiny Board a few weeks ago and Ursula Von der Leyen publicly admitting that simplification is about deregulation, we’re not the only ones worried about what will happen with the EU’s landmark chemicals legislation.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
🇪🇺 After a negative opinion was issued by the Commission’s Regulatory Scrutiny Board a few weeks ago and Ursula Von der Leyen publicly admitting that simplification is about deregulation, we’re not the only ones worried about what will happen with the EU’s landmark chemicals legislation.
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🧡 Join us for a one-hour deep dive into the science, methodology, and policy relevance of the SIN List update and learn all about the newly added chemicals!
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October 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🧡 Join us for a one-hour deep dive into the science, methodology, and policy relevance of the SIN List update and learn all about the newly added chemicals!
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🚨 Investors are sounding the alarm on PFAS.
The decision to split the EU-wide PFAS restriction and leave out eight major use categories, combined with vague discussions about “emission control” instead of a full phase-out, is causing concern:
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The decision to split the EU-wide PFAS restriction and leave out eight major use categories, combined with vague discussions about “emission control” instead of a full phase-out, is causing concern:
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October 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🚨 Investors are sounding the alarm on PFAS.
The decision to split the EU-wide PFAS restriction and leave out eight major use categories, combined with vague discussions about “emission control” instead of a full phase-out, is causing concern:
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The decision to split the EU-wide PFAS restriction and leave out eight major use categories, combined with vague discussions about “emission control” instead of a full phase-out, is causing concern:
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🚘 What if the EU's chemicals legislation applied to traffic rules?
𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁
↳ Stop signs are now “suggestions.” Drivers can roll through if they feel confident. The same applies to speed limits. Each driver decides what feels safe for them.
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𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁
↳ Stop signs are now “suggestions.” Drivers can roll through if they feel confident. The same applies to speed limits. Each driver decides what feels safe for them.
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October 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🚘 What if the EU's chemicals legislation applied to traffic rules?
𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁
↳ Stop signs are now “suggestions.” Drivers can roll through if they feel confident. The same applies to speed limits. Each driver decides what feels safe for them.
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𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁
↳ Stop signs are now “suggestions.” Drivers can roll through if they feel confident. The same applies to speed limits. Each driver decides what feels safe for them.
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🐟 After years of negotiations, the EU finally struck a deal last week to update their rules on water pollution. The deal is progress on paper, but something about it seems… fishy.
October 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🐟 After years of negotiations, the EU finally struck a deal last week to update their rules on water pollution. The deal is progress on paper, but something about it seems… fishy.
🧠 Scientists have begun to argue that chemical pollution poses a similar threat to climate change.
👱♀️ Anne-Sofie Bäckar, head of ChemSec, agrees. Here she sets out the evidence.
➡️ Read the full article here: chemsec.org/chemicals-an...
👱♀️ Anne-Sofie Bäckar, head of ChemSec, agrees. Here she sets out the evidence.
➡️ Read the full article here: chemsec.org/chemicals-an...
September 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🧠 Scientists have begun to argue that chemical pollution poses a similar threat to climate change.
👱♀️ Anne-Sofie Bäckar, head of ChemSec, agrees. Here she sets out the evidence.
➡️ Read the full article here: chemsec.org/chemicals-an...
👱♀️ Anne-Sofie Bäckar, head of ChemSec, agrees. Here she sets out the evidence.
➡️ Read the full article here: chemsec.org/chemicals-an...
💧 Next week, the EU will meet to discuss how to halt the rising chemical pollution in Europe's lakes and rivers.
🇪🇺 Yet members states are procrastinating, hoping to put off monitoring and cleanup efforts for decades.
👇🏽 Europe’s waters can’t wait — here are 4 priorities for the EU to tackle:
🇪🇺 Yet members states are procrastinating, hoping to put off monitoring and cleanup efforts for decades.
👇🏽 Europe’s waters can’t wait — here are 4 priorities for the EU to tackle:
September 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
💧 Next week, the EU will meet to discuss how to halt the rising chemical pollution in Europe's lakes and rivers.
🇪🇺 Yet members states are procrastinating, hoping to put off monitoring and cleanup efforts for decades.
👇🏽 Europe’s waters can’t wait — here are 4 priorities for the EU to tackle:
🇪🇺 Yet members states are procrastinating, hoping to put off monitoring and cleanup efforts for decades.
👇🏽 Europe’s waters can’t wait — here are 4 priorities for the EU to tackle:
🪓 The European Chemicals Agency recently announced that it will split the EU-wide #PFAS restriction, leaving out eight categories of PFAS uses.
👇🏻 Here are five reasons why this decision is a complete disaster.
👇🏻 Here are five reasons why this decision is a complete disaster.
September 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
🪓 The European Chemicals Agency recently announced that it will split the EU-wide #PFAS restriction, leaving out eight categories of PFAS uses.
👇🏻 Here are five reasons why this decision is a complete disaster.
👇🏻 Here are five reasons why this decision is a complete disaster.
📢 ECHA recently published an update to the EU-wide #PFAS restriction proposal, which included some pretty eye-catching changes.
🧡 In case you think 3,544 pages is a bit long and you don’t have time to read the whole thing — don’t worry. ChemSec has done it for you!
👉🏾 chemsec.org/pfas-restric...
🧡 In case you think 3,544 pages is a bit long and you don’t have time to read the whole thing — don’t worry. ChemSec has done it for you!
👉🏾 chemsec.org/pfas-restric...
September 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
📢 ECHA recently published an update to the EU-wide #PFAS restriction proposal, which included some pretty eye-catching changes.
🧡 In case you think 3,544 pages is a bit long and you don’t have time to read the whole thing — don’t worry. ChemSec has done it for you!
👉🏾 chemsec.org/pfas-restric...
🧡 In case you think 3,544 pages is a bit long and you don’t have time to read the whole thing — don’t worry. ChemSec has done it for you!
👉🏾 chemsec.org/pfas-restric...
💬 “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘺 𝘱𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦” —unnamed ChemSec employee.
🏭 ChemSec on a field trip to the Perstorp chemical plant! For some of us, it was a first-time visit to a chemical production site. For the old-timers… not so much.
🙏 Regardless, it was a very interesting visit!
🏭 ChemSec on a field trip to the Perstorp chemical plant! For some of us, it was a first-time visit to a chemical production site. For the old-timers… not so much.
🙏 Regardless, it was a very interesting visit!
September 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
💬 “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘺 𝘱𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦” —unnamed ChemSec employee.
🏭 ChemSec on a field trip to the Perstorp chemical plant! For some of us, it was a first-time visit to a chemical production site. For the old-timers… not so much.
🙏 Regardless, it was a very interesting visit!
🏭 ChemSec on a field trip to the Perstorp chemical plant! For some of us, it was a first-time visit to a chemical production site. For the old-timers… not so much.
🙏 Regardless, it was a very interesting visit!
📉 Europe’s flagship #water law set ambitious targets to clean up our waters by 2015. But now, a decade past the deadline, chemical pollution is rising. Today, less than 30% of Europe’s surface waters are in good chemical condition — and that number is getting worse, not better.
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September 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
📉 Europe’s flagship #water law set ambitious targets to clean up our waters by 2015. But now, a decade past the deadline, chemical pollution is rising. Today, less than 30% of Europe’s surface waters are in good chemical condition — and that number is getting worse, not better.
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🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: The European Chemicals Agency just announced that it will split the EU-wide #PFAS restriction, leaving out eight categories of PFAS uses. This has never happened before — and it’s a dangerous precedent.
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August 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: The European Chemicals Agency just announced that it will split the EU-wide #PFAS restriction, leaving out eight categories of PFAS uses. This has never happened before — and it’s a dangerous precedent.
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👀 The international law firm Steptoe LLP demanded that ChemSec censor an ad for a safer chemical on ChemSec Marketplace, our popular tool connecting suppliers of safer chemicals with companies seeking alternatives.
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August 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
👀 The international law firm Steptoe LLP demanded that ChemSec censor an ad for a safer chemical on ChemSec Marketplace, our popular tool connecting suppliers of safer chemicals with companies seeking alternatives.
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🤠 A new study shows legacy #PFAS like PFOA and PFOS are finally declining in milk thanks to restrictions.
🫨 But “replacement” PFAS are spiking — some by more than 250%.
🥛 The lesson? Banning single substances won’t cut it. We must #BanPFAS as a family of chemicals to see real change.
🫨 But “replacement” PFAS are spiking — some by more than 250%.
🥛 The lesson? Banning single substances won’t cut it. We must #BanPFAS as a family of chemicals to see real change.
August 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
😮 Is your feed flooded with gee-whizz, super-duper #PFAS clean-up technologies?
🧻 We all hope innovations can clean up the PFAS mess. Indeed, they are vital. But it doesn’t matter how much PFAS we take out if we keep on pumping them into the environment.
🧻 We all hope innovations can clean up the PFAS mess. Indeed, they are vital. But it doesn’t matter how much PFAS we take out if we keep on pumping them into the environment.
August 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
😮 Is your feed flooded with gee-whizz, super-duper #PFAS clean-up technologies?
🧻 We all hope innovations can clean up the PFAS mess. Indeed, they are vital. But it doesn’t matter how much PFAS we take out if we keep on pumping them into the environment.
🧻 We all hope innovations can clean up the PFAS mess. Indeed, they are vital. But it doesn’t matter how much PFAS we take out if we keep on pumping them into the environment.
👀 Is Europe’s chemical industry teaming up with the USA?
🧐 Cefic, the trade association, has joined with their US equivalent to demand “simplification” (i.e. deregulation).
🔔 Alarm bells! The ACC position is basically that if REACH was a country, they’d nuke it.
👁️ We will be watching...
🧐 Cefic, the trade association, has joined with their US equivalent to demand “simplification” (i.e. deregulation).
🔔 Alarm bells! The ACC position is basically that if REACH was a country, they’d nuke it.
👁️ We will be watching...
August 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
👀 Is Europe’s chemical industry teaming up with the USA?
🧐 Cefic, the trade association, has joined with their US equivalent to demand “simplification” (i.e. deregulation).
🔔 Alarm bells! The ACC position is basically that if REACH was a country, they’d nuke it.
👁️ We will be watching...
🧐 Cefic, the trade association, has joined with their US equivalent to demand “simplification” (i.e. deregulation).
🔔 Alarm bells! The ACC position is basically that if REACH was a country, they’d nuke it.
👁️ We will be watching...
🇺🇸 American chemical giants Chemours, DuPont and Corteva have agreed to pay $875 million to the state of New Jersey to settle environmental claims, including #PFAS pollution.
💬 New Jersey officials have called it the largest environmental settlement ever achieved by a single state.
💬 New Jersey officials have called it the largest environmental settlement ever achieved by a single state.
August 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🇺🇸 American chemical giants Chemours, DuPont and Corteva have agreed to pay $875 million to the state of New Jersey to settle environmental claims, including #PFAS pollution.
💬 New Jersey officials have called it the largest environmental settlement ever achieved by a single state.
💬 New Jersey officials have called it the largest environmental settlement ever achieved by a single state.
🐝 Ecologists and other scientists studying #biodiversity have identified five main drivers of the ongoing decline of the planet’s species — habitat destruction, overexploitation of natural resources, climate change, invasive alien species and 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.
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August 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🐝 Ecologists and other scientists studying #biodiversity have identified five main drivers of the ongoing decline of the planet’s species — habitat destruction, overexploitation of natural resources, climate change, invasive alien species and 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.
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🍼 Everyday items like electronics, scented products, plastics, clothes, and food packaging often contain 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝘀 that alter your hormonal system.
🤔 Which is the first chemical or consumer product that pops into your mind when you think of hormone disruptors?
🤔 Which is the first chemical or consumer product that pops into your mind when you think of hormone disruptors?
July 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
🍼 Everyday items like electronics, scented products, plastics, clothes, and food packaging often contain 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝘀 that alter your hormonal system.
🤔 Which is the first chemical or consumer product that pops into your mind when you think of hormone disruptors?
🤔 Which is the first chemical or consumer product that pops into your mind when you think of hormone disruptors?
💥 Wednesday’s decision to weaken the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) marks huge a step backwards for chemical transparency and accountability.
July 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
💥 Wednesday’s decision to weaken the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) marks huge a step backwards for chemical transparency and accountability.