23 April, 2025
08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
PFAS Under Pressure: Key Trends and Challenges Worldwide
PFAS Under Pressure: Key Trends and Challenges Worldwide – Whitepaper Overview
Global regulatory momentum against PFAS is accelerating, driven by international conventions and influential markets like the U.S., EU, and now Canada. As these efforts increasingly target PFAS as a class, a more comprehensive and harmonized regulatory landscape is emerging, making it essential for industries to stay informed and proactive to ensure compliance and support sustainability goals.
This whitepaper explores the growing global regulatory response to PFAS, driven by concerns over their persistence, bioaccumulation, and health risks. While U.S. and EU policies often lead the conversation, international treaties like the Stockholm and Rotterdam Conventions are playing a pivotal role in shaping PFAS regulations worldwide. With countries like Canada moving toward regulating PFAS as a class, this paper provides a comprehensive overview of regulatory developments beyond the U.S. and EU, highlighting emerging trends, regional challenges, and the implications for industry compliance and sustainability.
This Whitepaper Covers:
It reviews key PFAS regulations globally (excluding the U.S. and EU), covering:
- World (International Conventions and Guidance)
- Oceania
- East and Southeast Asia
- North and South America
- Africa
- Eurasia
*This whitepaper was originally published on 23rd April, 2025. Further regulatory developments may have occurred after publication. To keep up-to-date with the latest compliance news, sign up to our newsletter.
Authors
Valentina Marchetti, Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist and Team Lead, Compliance & Risks
Valentina is a Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist and Team Lead at Compliance & Risks. She is responsible for monitoring, analyzing and evaluating global regulations across a wide range of topics, with a focus on chemicals legislation, and leads a team of international product regulatory analysts/specialists. Valentina also works closely with clients on specific projects.
Valentina has been working with Compliance & Risks since 2021 and supports clients in their global legal compliance challenges with a particular interest and focus on chemicals management, chemicals in products, GHS and nanotechnology.
Valentina holds a Master’s Degree in Chemistry, has 8 years of regulatory experience in the oil and gas industry and is also qualified as an ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems Internal Auditor. She is an Italian native speaker and also speaks English.
