EU wild boar found to contain high levels of toxic PFAS

Published 2024년 6월 28일

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A study conducted by The James Hutton Institute and the University of Graz has found that wild boar in the Bohemian Forest National Park in the Czech Republic have toxic PFAS levels nearly five times higher than the EU's permitted limit for meat sold for human consumption. The levels of PFAS, also known as 'forever chemicals', were found to be twice as high as those in a previous study in a rural area of Germany. The research, which analyzed the livers of 30 wild boar from the park, was aimed at assessing background levels of PFAS in the environment. The park, which has been protected since 1963 and is home to around 400 wild boar, borders Germany and is known to have high PFAS concentrations due to atmospheric deposition, food packaging, and textile treatment.

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Wild boar in a European national park have been found to contain levels of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” nearly five times higher than is allowed to be sold in meat for human consumption under EU law, according to a new study. The work, by experts in PFAS at The James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen and the University of Graz in Austria, was carried to assess background levels of the chemicals in the environment, using wild boar from the Bohemian Forest National Park in the Czech Republic as “bio-indicators”. It found that, compared to an earlier study of wild boar in a rural area of north-east Germany, the boar in the park contained twice as much PFAS. There are more than 12,000 PFAS, dubbed “forever chemicals” due to how long they take to degrade, which are widely used in household products but linked with serious health concerns including cancer, fertility issues and liver damage. Viktoria Müller, a researcher at the Hutton, who supported the study as part of her PhD research at ...

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