First results of a monitoring campaign for aqueous discharges of PFAS made it possible to detect pollution on around fifty industrial sites in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. These first checks cover 135 of the 600 sites targeted in the region as part of a national action plan launched in 2023.
At the national level, nearly 5,000 sites (operators of installations classified for environmental protection, or ICPE, falling under the authorization regime) are targeted because they are potentially the most concerned about PFAS discharges. The industrialist and its neighbor Daikin, which produces fluoropolymers and as such handles PFAS, have been under surveillance since a series of journalistic investigations which, in 2022, revealed the extent of contamination in Pierre-Bénite, in the Rhône region. The monitoring campaign is expected to be completed before the end of the year, with the first results expected to come out in mid-November, the regional prefecture said.