The concealed pfas problem

2023-09-12

BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM — Scientific publications, leaked company data and government data suggest that industry is doing everything possible to deliberately put up a fog curtain around these ultra short PFAS.

We have no idea how many PFAS companies such as 3M and Chemours are dumping into the environment. Extensive research exposes the existence of "dark PFAS": countless variants of the forever chemicals that no one knows about and no one measures, but which are pernicious to the environment and health. Especially ultra short PFAS, the toxic smallest brothers of the PFAS family, are found massively in the environment.

Photo credits: Simon Clément

Team members

Esmeralda Borgo

Esmeralda Borgo is a freelance investigative journalist.

Jan Daalder

Jan Daalder (1996) has been working for Follow the Money since 2022.

Tom Cochez

Tom Cochez is a Belgian investigative journalist.

Steven Vanden Bussche

Steven Vanden Bussche (1979) is an investigative journalist at Apache.

Tim Luimes

Tim Luimes is a freelance investigative journalist based in The Netherlands.

Mira Sys

Mira Sys (1995) is working for Follow the Money for over five years now.

Supported

€8.350 allocated on 20/02/2023.

SCI/2023/028

Grant

Pascal Decroos Fund

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