Helping the ECAH with its PFAS consultation

Finally, the EU is trying to regulate forever chemicals (PFAS). You know that stuff that's everywhere causing us cancer, infertility and other fun things.

Predictably, the industry which produces these chemicals are doing everything in their power to resist this change. Their lobbying is now so aggressive, that the recent public consultation of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) was flooded with 5600 responses (mostly from coordinated industry participants), which resulted in 7000+ pages of "feedback". The situation is so bad, that ECHA the Guardian and many other news outlets covered the issue recently.

So we rolled up our sleeves, merged together the consultation data from 125 sources into a single spreadsheet and put it through CrowdPrisma. This resulted in (by far) our biggest analysis. We've already notified the ECHA the Forever Pollution Project about this resourced and offered our help in understanding this massive dataset through our Prisma Dashboard. 

You can check the resulting dashboard here and find some amazing insights yourself or give us a bit of time to put together a short video.

When checking the dashboard, make sure to view it on a laptop with strong internet connection and have a bit of patience... You're literally looking at 5000 pages of accurately analysed and categorised text. That's nearly five Bibles of text which CrowdPrisma chewed through like a champ in just 4.5 hours. 

This project wasn't easy or cheap, but we like to help good causes and we are hoping that by spreading this news our software will help regulators, consultants across the globe in similar situations. Without software like ours, doing this work is simply impossible. If you need further convincing, just look at any of these files and check the "Content" field of any of the comments. That's the level of granularity and sophistication this data was look at and understood. But we can do so much beter than that! 

Let us know if you'd like to use CrowdPrisma for free for a similarly important project and we'll be happy to help!