Fire Department Service Announcement

Bulletin #38, Companies that have switched over to F3 products, 1 October 2021

 These listed companies have already transitioned to fluorine-free firefighting foams for their industrial facilities and corporate owned properties.

* Expected to convert by the end of 2021.

With much appreciation to Marcel Biervliet, International channel manager Fluorine Free Foam proportioning technology for helping to provide the information on companies that have switched over to fluorine-free firefighting foams.

Notes:
1   IPEN Expert Panel, Stockholm Convention 9^th Conference of the Parties (COP9) Geneva, April-May 2019, The Global PFAS Problem: Fluorine-Free Alternatives as Solutions, Firefighting foams and Other Sources – Going Fluorine-Free, p. 27, https://ipen.org/sites/default/files/documents/the_global_pfas_problem_v1_6.pdf and Fluorine-Free Firefighting Foams (AFFF) Viable Alternatives to Fluorinated Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF), Independent Expert Panel Convened by IPEN, Stockholm Convention POPRIC-14, Rome, September 2018, p. 49, https://ipen.org/sites/default/files/documents/IPEN_F3_Position_Paper_POPRC-14_12September2018d.pdf
2    EWG, It’s Time To Switch to PFAS-Free Firefighting Foams, Melanie Benesh (EWG), undated, https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/its-time-switch-pfas-free-firefighting-foams and and Fluorine-Free Firefighting Foams (AFFF) Viable Alternatives to Fluorinated Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF), Independent Expert Panel Convened by IPEN, Stockholm Convention POPRIC-14, Rome, September 2018, p. 49, https://ipen.org/sites/default/files/documents/IPEN_F3_Position_Paper_POPRC-14_12September2018d.pdf
3   ibid.
4   Firsthand knowledge of Marcel Biervliet, International channel manager Fluorine Free Foam proportioning technology and IPEN Expert Panel, Stockholm Convention 9^th Conference of the Parties (COP9) Geneva, April-May 2019, The Global PFAS Problem: Fluorine-Free Alternatives as Solutions, Firefighting foams and Other Sources – Going Fluorine-Free, p. 27, https://ipen.org/sites/default/files/documents/the_global_pfas_problem_v1_6.pdf and Fluorine-Free Firefighting Foams (AFFF) Viable Alternatives to Fluorinated Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF), Independent Expert Panel Convened by IPEN, Stockholm Convention POPRIC-14, Rome, September 2018, p. 49, https://ipen.org/sites/default/files/documents/IPEN_F3_Position_Paper_POPRC-14_12September2018d.pdf
5   IPEN Expert Panel, Stockholm Convention 9^th Conference of the Parties (COP9) Geneva, April-May 2019, The Global PFAS Problem: Fluorine-Free Alternatives as Solutions, Firefighting foams and Other Sources – Going Fluorine-Free, p. 27, https://ipen.org/sites/default/files/documents/the_global_pfas_problem_v1_6.pdf and Fluorine-Free Firefighting Foams (AFFF) Viable Alternatives to Fluorinated Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF), Independent Expert Panel Convened by IPEN, Stockholm Convention POPRIC-14, Rome, September 2018, p. 49, https://ipen.org/sites/default/files/documents/IPEN_F3_Position_Paper_POPRC-14_12September2018d.pdf
6   IPEN Expert Panel, Stockholm Convention 9^th Conference of the Parties (COP9) Geneva, April-May 2019, The Global PFAS Problem: Fluorine-Free Alternatives as Solutions, Firefighting foams and Other Sources – Going Fluorine-Free, p. 27, https://ipen.org/sites/default/files/documents/the_global_pfas_problem_v1_6.pdf and EWG, It’s Time To Switch to PFAS-Free Firefighting Foams, Melanie Benesh (EWG), undated, https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/its-time-switch-pfas-free-firefighting-foams
7  IPEN, Peer-Reviewed Publication, News Release, Fire-safety sectors call for global PFAS ban, no loopholes for toxic firefighting foam, 1-May-2019, https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/491664
8   Fluorine-Free Firefighting Foams (AFFF) Viable Alternatives to Fluorinated Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF), Independent Expert Panel Convened by IPEN, Stockholm Convention POPRIC-14, Rome, September 2018, p. 49, https://ipen.org/sites/default/files/documents/IPEN_F3_Position_Paper_POPRC-14_12September2018d.pdf
9  Safer Chemicals Healthy Family, PFAS-free firefighting foams are safer and effective for military use, Liz Hitchcock and Laurie Valeriano, September 12, 2019, https://saferchemicals.org/2019/09/12/pfas-free-firefighting-foams-are-safer-and-effective-for-military-use/
10   ibid.
11   IPEN Expert Panel, Stockholm Convention 9^th Conference of the Parties (COP9) Geneva, April-May 2019, The Global PFAS Problem: Fluorine-Free Alternatives as Solutions, Firefighting foams and Other Sources – Going Fluorine-Free, p. 27, https://ipen.org/sites/default/files/documents/the_global_pfas_problem_v1_6.pdf and Fluorine-Free Firefighting Foams (AFFF) Viable Alternatives to Fluorinated Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF), Independent Expert Panel Convened by IPEN, Stockholm Convention POPRIC-14, Rome, September 2018, p. 49, https://ipen.org/sites/default/files/documents/IPEN_F3_Position_Paper_POPRC-14_12September2018d.pdf
12  EWG, It’s Time To Switch to PFAS-Free Firefighting Foams, Melanie Benesh (EWG), undated, https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/its-time-switch-pfas-free-firefighting-foams and Fluorine-Free Firefighting Foams (AFFF) Viable Alternatives to Fluorinated Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF), Independent Expert Panel Convened by IPEN, Stockholm Convention POPRIC-14, Rome, September 2018, p. 49, https://ipen.org/sites/default/files/documents/IPEN_F3_Position_Paper_POPRC-14_12September2018d.pdf
13  ibid.
14  ibid.
15  ibid.
16  ibid.
17  ibid.
18  ibid.
19  ibid.
20  ibid.