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Document 23 Consumers are exposed to unnecessary risk But that is not all. It is particularly worrying that PFAS substances are present in dozens of common everyday and sports products: these include lubricants for bicycles, tennis rackets coatings, ski wax, fishing cord, some wooden boats and sail covers and climbing ropes. However, theresearchers stress that their current inventory of PFAS products added. Shell of silence This is, however, a difficult exercise. This is because where companies use PFAS, it is often a scattered secret. For example, ETH scientists wanted to know from the US EPA in what quantities some PFAS are produced or imported in the US. However, the authority refused the information. The reason: The What is the policy? The ETHWorking Group hopes that human and environmental compounds will be replaced by other substances as quickly as possible. After all, if bicycle lubricants have long been free of PFAS, why do they still need PFAS? TheEU already raises similar questions. The new EU chemicals strategy for sustainability envisages regulating the group of all PFAS chemicals and banning all major uses of chemicals so far. In the US, the new President Joe Biden has also promised rapid action the outgoing Trump administration had suspended previously planned measures to limit and regulate PFAS. PFAS chemicals are also identified as an issue of concern at the United Nations, a sosolutions to address the PFAS problem worldwide. However, no result has yet been achieved. TheBUND, together with other German, European and international environmental associations, is committed to an effective new agreement the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM).The new SAICM agreement is due to be adopted in Bonn in July this year. The Federal Ministry of the Environment is leading the negotiations. To this end, the Federal Government specifically calls for: The EU must implement the proposals in its chemicals strategy, regulate the group of all PFAS chemicals as soon as possible and ban its main uses. The UNWorking Group on PFAS Chemicals must recommend as soon as possible global bans on the production and use of PFAS chemicals. Bans must be the basis for a global coordinated response to these harmful chemicals. Bans form the basis for individual states to act Do you support the prompt implementation of these two requests?I would be very pleased to hear from you. Many thanks for your efforts. (complimentary close)