Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: Per-and polyluoroalkylated substances (PFAS) are a group of man-made chemical substances used in everyday products and industry processes since the 1950s. They contain carbon-fluorine bonds, among the strongest in chemistry, resulting in intrinsic or indirect extreme environmental persistence and earning them the nickname "forever chemicals". In a context of growing awareness of PFAS toxicity and widespread pollution, the Forever Pollution Project (FPP), a cross-border journalistic investigation, compiled data on measured and estimated PFAS contamination across Europe, published as an interactive map. In this data paper we present the PFAS Data Hub (PDH), a project building upon the FPP dataset and reprocessing it using a more robust and transparent methodology. We incorporated several additional data sources, most of which are automatically updated on a monthly basis. To our knowledge, this constitutes the only compilation of PFAS contamination data at the European scale. It is intended to support research projects across a wide range of different disciplines, and to be used as a source of information by journalists, citizens and civil society organisations. The data, as well as a geovisualisation tool with filtering and export options, is available on the PDH website: https://pdh.cnrs.fr.
Source: HAL
Institutions: Aix-Marseille Université, Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes, Pôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la Diffusion de l'Information Géographique, Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux
Language: English
Subfield: Environmental Chemistry
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7117208330