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
Session 3 From health concerns to hazard management measures
09:00 – 09:05 Welcome Day 2
- UBA
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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