EU Watchdog Reduces Safe Level of Exposure to 'Forever Chemical' TFA
EFSA set the new limit at 0.014 mg per kilogram of bodyweight per day after studies linked TFA to changes in thyroxine.
- On Wednesday, the European Food Safety Authority lowered the acceptable daily intake for trifluoroacetic acid to 0.014mg per kilogram of bodyweight, down from the previous 0.05 value.
- Researchers based their analysis on 170 studies, finding that TFA "changes levels of thyroxine," a hormone regulating the body's metabolism, prompting the EFSA to revise safety thresholds.
- Often called "forever chemicals," TFA forms when PFAS substances break down, "including from certain active substances in pesticides," and persists in groundwater, soil, and food crops.
- France's ANSES health agency is revising its drinking water thresholds following the EFSA decision, while the European Commission and member states like Denmark and the Netherlands are expected to update concentration limits.
- Environmental chemistry professor Hans-Peter Arp told AFP he "would be surprised" if the limit "was not revised downwards in the future," as the EFSA continues examining PFAS breakdown into TFA.
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EU watchdog reduces safe level of exposure to 'forever chemical' TFA
The EU's food safety agency said Wednesday it has dramatically reduced the acceptable daily intake level of the so-called forever chemical TFA, following new evidence of its effect on a key hormone that regulates the body's metabolism.
On the basis of new scientific work, the European Food Safety Authority significantly lowered the exposure limit for trifluoroacetic acid on Wednesday, 22 July, thus paving the way for stricter controls on the continent.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is opening the way for stricter controls on drinking water, to track down the smallest and most persistent TFA pollutant.On Wednesday, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has tightened its recommendations on the permissible doses of TFA, a pollutant ubiquitous in water.This decision paves the way for stricter controls on drinking water on the continent.This compound is the smallest and most persist…
The European Union's (EU) Food Safety Agency said on Wednesday that it had drastically reduced the safe daily intake for the so-called eternal chemical TFA, based on new evidence of its effects on a key hormone that regulates the body's metabolism.
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