{"id":198932,"date":"2026-03-26T13:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/eu-chemicals-agency-backs-forever-chemicals-ban-with-final-decision-to-the-commission\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:49:05","slug":"eu-chemicals-agency-backs-forever-chemicals-ban-with-final-decision-to-the-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/eu-chemicals-agency-backs-forever-chemicals-ban-with-final-decision-to-the-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Chemicals Agency backs &#8216;forever chemicals&#8217; ban, with final decision to the Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Chemicals Agency&#8217;s opinion follows pressure from Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway, and the Netherlands to take urgent action to restrict PFAS use due to its environmental and health impact. The European Commission will decide on whether to act upon ECHA&#8217;s opinion by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/03\/26\/eu-chemicals-agency-backs-forever-chemicals-ban-with-final-decision-to-the-commission\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Chemicals Agency&#8217;s opinion follows pressure from Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway, and the Netherlands to take urgent action to restrict PFAS use due to its environmental and health impact. The European Commission will decide on whether to act upon ECHA&#8217;s opinion by the end of 2026. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":198933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}