27/05/2024 (Agence Europe) – European waters are contaminated by a very persistent chemical, trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a substance whose toxicological profile raises a number of questions, denounces the ‘European Pesticide Action Network’ (PAN Europe), in a study published on Monday 27 May. The organisation, which analysed 23 surface water samples (the Elbe, the Seine, etc.) and six groundwater samples from ten European Union countries, found that 79% of these samples contained...