PFAS stands for PIR and Polyfluoroalkyl substances. It's an umbrella term for a family of thousands of chemicals, so around 10,000 or 12,000 on the market at the moment. The EU would like to regulate the entire class of chemicals as one. But in the UK, we're rather further behind. And it's very difficult for public interest science to then pick one of those chemicals and then prove that it's creating harm.

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