Pharma lobby says EU ban on ‘forever chemicals’ would halt drug production

Pharma lobby says EU ban on ‘forever chemicals’ would halt drug production

By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European drugmakers warned that a proposed complete ban on substances known as PFAS or "forever chemicals" would render medicine production in the region impossible, part of a high-stakes wrangle between manufacturers and environmental regulators. The European Union started to consider in February a ban of the widely used but potentially harmful substances, in what could become the bloc's most extensive…