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This opinion piece by Lee Bell, IPEN Technical and Policy Advisor, appears as part of a policy debate in the May/June 2025 issue of the Environmental Law Institute's Environmental Forum.

The POPs Review Committee has recommended three new chemicals be listed for global elimination at the 2025 Stockholm Convention COP: chlorpyrifos, medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCPs), and long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids (LC-PFCAs). IPEN's guides briefly describe why each of these hazardous chemicals should be globally banned, without exemptions.

This guide describes long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids and the case for listing these chemicals for global elimination.