Recommendation of: PFAS Data Hub: An open data portal featuring geovisualisation. Round#3

Per-and polyluoroalkylated substances (PFAS) are a group of man-made chemical substances used in everyday products and industry processes since the 1950s. They contain carbon-fluorine bonds, among the strongest in chemistry, resulting in intrinsic or indirect extreme environmental persistence and earning them the nickname "forever chemicals". In a context of growing awareness of PFAS toxicity and widespread pollution, the Forever Pollution Project (FPP), a cross-border journalistic investigation, compiled data on measured and estimated PFAS contamination across Europe, published as an interactive map. In this data paper we present the PFAS Data Hub (PDH), a project building upon the FPP dataset and reprocessing it using a more robust and transparent methodology. We incorporated several additional data sources, most of which are automatically updated on a monthly basis. To our knowledge, this constitutes the only compilation of PFAS contamination data at the European scale. It is intended to support research projects across a wide range of different disciplines, and to be used as a source of information by journalists, citizens and civil society organisations. The data, as well as a geovisualisation tool with filtering and export options, is available on the PDH website: https://pdh.cnrs.fr.