TFA, forever chemical, found in the blood of all 110 volunteers tested

An analysis conducted on 110 volunteers from nine European countries — including Italy, Belgium, France, Croatia, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Denmark and Finland — detected the presence of the compound TFA in the blood of all participants. The news currently comes from a single source, Adnkronos Salute, picked up by Il Fatto Quotidiano; no independent confirmations are available at this time.

TFA is a degradation product of numerous fluorinated compounds, including refrigerants, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and PFAS themselves, the substances known as forever chemicals for their persistence in the environment and in living organisms. The level of TFA contamination found in this analysis is, according to the report, the highest ever recorded so far in humans.

The material available does not specify the selection method for the volunteers, the age or other characteristics of the sample, nor the laboratory methodology used to detect the compound. It is also not indicated whether the results underwent peer review or were published in a scientific journal, information whose absence requires caution in defining the exact scope of the data.

What remains, in any case, is a fact reported by an identified source: the presence of the compound in all 110 participants, spread across nine countries, constitutes a wide geographic distribution that the text describes as unprecedented for this specific contaminant. It is not possible, based on the material available, to establish whether the distribution detected stems from a single route of exposure or from multiple, different sources in the various countries involved, nor what health reference threshold is applied to assess the clinical relevance of the measured concentrations.

The absence of a primary scientific source directly accessible in the material gathered today remains the main limitation of this report, and the lack of methodological details currently prevents a broader assessment of the reported data.