2021

IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute and Stockholm University have conducted this study on PFASs in cosmetic products by contract of the Swedish Chemical Agency as part of the Agency’s preparatory work on a broad PFAS restriction under the REACH regulation.

This report was commissioned by the Swedish Chemical Agency and conducted by the author Professor Thomas Backhaus, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Lund University was commissioned by the Swedish Chemicals Agency to map and describe the evidence base for interactive effects of structural landscape change and the use of PPPs on biodiversity, as well as actions that could be taken to mitigate effects of PPP use.

The study is a regulatory mapping for remanufacturing of products under EU law with focus on the legal framework in a Circular Economy context. The aim of this report is to provide an overview of the current legal situation, identifying areas of potential improvement and highlighting provisions that are not adapted, contradictive or difficult to apply in a Circular Economy context.

PFAS (per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances), also called highly fluorinated substances, have become a problem in the environment around the world. It is most often PFOS that is analyzed and found in, among other things, drinking water and groundwater, contaminated soil, fish and humans. But there are several thousand other PFASs and it is therefore likely that there are more PFASs in environmental samples. Measuring EOF (extractable organic fluorine) is a way of measuring the sum of fluorinated substances in samples without knowing exactly which ones they are.

The purpose of this report was to investigate whether environmental provisions in regional trade agreements have been used to promote the implementation of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).

PFAS (per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances) have contaminated soil, drinking and groundwater, and exposed animals and humans. The report provides a broad and easy-to-understand basis that can introduce the PFAS problem to people with a certain scientific background, but who do not yet have expert knowledge of PFAS.

In this project, IVL has upon request of the Swedish Chemical Agency, identified and described several loops of materials in order to better understand how these loops are built.

Lund University was commissioned by the Swedish Chemicals Agency to map and describe emerging methodologies that assess the indirect impact of plant protection products on nontarget organism individuals and populations, and studies that evaluates if current risk assessment methodologies are sufficient to assess direct effects of plant protection products on biodiversity.