The international conference brings together national and international scientists and risk assessors to exchange current scientific knowledge on PFAS and to discuss challenges and advances in human health risk assessment. Emphasis is placed on the following topics:

• Targeted and Untargeted Analytical Methods
• External and Internal Exposure
• Toxicokinetics
• Toxicity
• In Silico Methods
• New Approach Methodologies

Programme

Poster abstracts

Presentations from 08.10.2025

Dr Christian Unkelbach, Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Germany
Background and state of play on the PFAS restriction

Prof. Dr Stuart Harrad, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Sources and pathways of human exposure to PFAS

Dr Ron Hoogenboom, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
EFSA 2020: risk assessment and related challenges

Dr Stefan van Leeuwen, Wageningen Food Safety Research (WUR), The Netherlands
Target analysis: new developments in matrices and detection limits

Dr Bernd Göckener, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Germany 
Untargeted methods: overview of existing methods

Prof. Dr Dorte Herzke, Norwegian Institute for Public Health, Norway
Untargeted methods: suitability to determine PFAS in human blood?

Dr Christian Jung, BfR, Germany
PFAS in food: Data sourcesand exposure estimates

Dr Alexander Eckhardt, German Environment Agency (UBA), Germany
PFAS in drinking water – toxicological assessment, regulation and monitoring

Dr Runa S. Boeddinghaus, Landwirtschaftliches Technologiezentrum Augustenberg (LTZ), Germany
PFAS in different food matrices

Presentations from 09.10.2025

PhD Greet Schoeters, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Temporal development of internal exposure

PD Dr Klaus Abraham, BfR, Germany
Kinetics in humans

Dr Finnian Freeling, German Water Centre, Germany
Sources, fate and exposure to trifluoroacetic acid (TFA)

Dr James Chan, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
Understanding half-life variability using mechanistic kinetic modelling

Prof. Dr Tony Fletcher, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
C8 health study and Veneto cohort study: exposure and health impacts assessment

Prof. Dr Thorhallur I. Halldorsson, University of Iceland, Iceland
Epidemiological data on the most sensitive endpoint in humans: Immunotoxicity

Dr Macon Carroll, Oregon State University, United States of America
Mode of action on immunotoxicity

PhD Federica Madia, International Agency for Research on Cancer, France
IARC Monographs programme: identification of PFOA and PFOS cancer hazard

Presentations from 10.10.2025

Dr Ron Hoogenboom, Wageningen Food Safety Research (WUR), The Netherlands
Consideration of potency factors for the human health risk assessment

Assoc. Prof. Dr Xenia Trier, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Challenges and data needs in PFAS risk assessment

Lorna Schütte, Illustrator, Germany
Panel discussion in pictures (Graphic recording)

Venue
German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)
Location Berlin-Marienfelde
Lecture theatre
Diedersdorfer Weg 1
12277 Berlin

Organiser
German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)
Max-Dohrn-Straße 8–10
10589 Berlin
Germany
www.bfr.bund.de