Industry using ‘tobacco playbook’ to fend off ‘forever chemicals’ regulation

Efforts to restrict the production of plastic “forever chemicals” that could threaten public health have been met with a large-scale coordinated attack by the multibillion pound industries that make and use them.

Industry-funded research and exaggerated claims litter the arguments made by the fluoropolymer industry against stricter regulation, a year-long investigation by the Forever Lobbying Project, a cross-border investigation involving 46 journalists and 18 experts across 16 countries can reveal.

Fluoropolymers are high performance plastics and a type of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) – a group of more than 10,000 human-made chemicals that will not break down in the environment for tens of thousands of years, if ever, earning them the nickname “forever chemicals”.

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