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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “PFAS IN SOIL – FOREVER POLLUTION, FOREVER CONCERN?”

 

Day 1 (25 March 2025)

13:00 – 13:20 Opening and welcome

  • Christiane Rohleder - State Secretary, German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (⁠BMUV⁠)

  • Claudia Röhl - German Environment Agency - head of division Environmental Health and Protection of Ecosystems

Session 1 Case studies – ⁠PFAS⁠ pollution in soil and human exposure pathways

13:20 – 13:40 The Rastatt case – measures to reduce the PFAS exposure via food and drinking water

  • Christoph Krakau - Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Energy Sector, Baden-Württemberg, DE

13:40 – 14:00 The Korsør case – PFAS exposure of a local human population by cattle meat

  • Søren Dyreborg - NIRAS, DK

14:00 – 14:20 From soils into pigs – accumulation of PFAS in wild boar livers illustrated by data from Germany

  • Tobias Frische - German Environment Agency, ⁠UBA⁠
  • Jana Rupp - German Institute for Risk Assessment, ⁠BfR⁠

14:20 – 14:40 Drinking water contamination with PFAS in Ronneby, Sweden

  • Dauren Mussabek - Lund University, SE

14:40 – 15:00 PFAS analysis campaigns in eggs from domestic poultry farms in the Lyon conurbation (France) in 2023

  • Manuel Marquis - French Ministry of Health and Agence régionale de santé Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ARS AuRA), FR

15.00- 15:30 Coffee Break

Session 2 Analytics, monitoring & remediation

15:30 – 15:50 Analytical tools for PFAS determination in soil – Options and limitations

  • Frank Thomas Lange - German Water Centre, TZW

15:50 – 16:10 ⁠Monitoring⁠ of PFAS in soils and soil leachates – Background levels in German and North Rhine-Westphalian top soils

  • Mareike Mersmann - State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection North Rhine-Westphalia, LANUV, DE
  • Lennart Gehrenkemper - German Environment Agency, UBA

16:10 – 16:30 The Swiss situation: PFAS background levels and hotspots in soils and groundwater

  • Bettina Hitzfeld - Federal Office for the Environment - BAFU, CH

16:30 – 16:50 Remediation of PFAS in soil and groundwater: State of the art

  • Thomas Held - Arcadis

16:50 – 17:30 Overall discussion (session 1 and session 2)

17:30 END OF DAY 1

18:30 Dinner

 

 

DAY 2 (26 March 2025)

Session 3 From health concerns to hazard management measures

09:00 – 09:05 Welcome Day 2

09:05 – 09:35 Keynote: Unmasking the threat: ⁠PFAS⁠ exposure through drinking water and its human health impact

  • Mattias Öberg - Karolinska Institute, SE

09:35 – 10:00 Flemish PFAS policy: what have we learned in the meantime?

  • Johan Ceenaeme - Public Waste Agency of Flanders, OVAM, BE

10:00-10:45 Briefings from European countries & discussion

  • Dietmar Müller-Grabherr, AT
  • Julie Kofoed, DK
  • Mathijs van de Waardt and Michiel Gadella, NL
  • Michael Hughes, UK
  • Manuel Marquis, FR

10:45– 11:15 Coffee Break

Session 4 PFAS in soil – Time to act together

11:15 – 11:25 PFAS in soil and the broader perspective of chemicals regulation (provisional title)

  • Dirk Messner - President of the German Environment Agency, UBA

11:25 – 11:35 Presentation of a draft discussion paper "PFAS in soil - time to act together" 

  • Tobias Frische - German Environment Agency, UBA

11:35 – 12:50 Towards immediate political actions and European cooperation on PFAS in soil - Panel discussion

  • Jutta Paulus - Member of the European Parliament

  • Paul Speight - Environment Department of the European Commission, Head of Unit– Safe & Sustainable Chemicals (ENV.B.2)

  • Patrik ten Brink - Secretary General, European Environmental Bureau, EEB

  • Leen Bastiaens - Manager, Knowledge Centre for Innovative Remediation Solutions (KIS)

12:50 – 13:00 Wrap up and closure

  • UBA

13:00 END OF CONFERENCE

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