RIVM: Many People with Too Much PFAS in Their Blood, but Also Cautiously Positive News
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While Europe is working on a total ban on PFAS, the RIVM observes that most Dutch people already have lower levels of these chemicals in their blood. But not in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen.
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The amount of PFAS in the blood of adults in the Netherlands has decreased since 2016/2017. This is shown by new RIVM research among 967 blood donors. In 71 percent, the amount is still above the health-based limit. In the earlier studies, this applied to 99 percent.
Dutch people who have polluting PFAS in their blood will also get rid of them. Since a ban, the blood concentrations of two types of PFAS seem...
Almost every Dutch person had PFAS in their blood in 2025, according to the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). Furthermore, nearly three-quarters of the Dutch population had excessive levels of it in their blood. They exceed the so-called health-based limit value, according to a study conducted by the RIVM using blood samples from 2025 from donors at blood bank Sanquin. At the same time, there appears to be a sligh…
About three-quarters of the Dutch population had too much PFAS in their blood in 2025, according to the RIVM. In Dordrecht, the levels were almost the worst in the entire country. Only around the industry in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen were the levels even more extreme.
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