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How to avoid the next Silent Spring? As shown by using in @EnvSciTech, use started before wrote Silent Spring in the 60s.

...Since then chemical pollution has gotten out of control.

What do do?

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.e

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Regulations for persistent substances must be to prevent their poorly reversible accumulation in the environment, and NOT just like the , requiring proof of - or damage from - accumulation in the environment.

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Hans Peter Arp

', “the dose makes the poison”, is an irresponsible axiom for substances that accumulate in the environment. In 1962, did not know that PFAS could be a poison, and in 2023, scientists are still researching the dose.

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To improve of persistent substances, we need to:

1) improve experimental testing 🧪👩‍🔬
2) develop in silico methods💻🖱️
3) strengthen regulatory options 🔖👩‍⚖️

More: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.e

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with @DagnyAurich @ESchymanski @DrKerryS @PMsarahehale

@ZeroPM_H2020
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