The BioPhorum response to the Annex XV Report on the proposal for universal PFAS restrictions. It is considered by the BioPhorum collaboration that unless ECHA provide the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry with appropriate exemptions or derogations to find, test and validate alternatives and execute a transition out of these materials (where alternatives are available), there will be a real threat to the global availability of critical vaccines and biotherapeutics.
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