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Pressure to reduce and replace PFAS continues to intensify, but for industry the challenge is increasingly moving beyond awareness of the problem. The practical questions are now: Where are PFAS performing critical functions? What alternatives can deliver those functions? How can we demonstrate that a substitute is genuinely safer and sustainable while maintaining the required technical performance? Recent developments illustrate why PFAS substitution needs to be approached

Since the early 2010s, I have had the opportunity to work alongside the French cosmetics industry through a variety of professional experiences. I first contributed to the French national environmental labelling initiative, developing approaches for assessing the environmental impacts of cosmetic ingredients using the USEtox methodology. More recently, I spent several years supporting manufacturers of cosmetic finished products and raw materials within a private ecotoxicology

We are excited to share the release of our latest preprint on AOPGraphExplorer , now available on bioRxiv. Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs) are foundational to mechanistic toxicology and regulatory science; they map how a molecular perturbation can causally lead to an adverse outcome across levels of biological organization. These frameworks help unify and communicate complex mechanistic evidence for chemical risk assessment and safety evaluation. However, AOP knowledge in exi