A special episode hosted by Swiss Medtech, with Barbara Mettler asking the questions. Prof. Dr. Martin Scheringer from ETH Zurich, toxicologist Arne Jaksch and Lucas Pianegonda work through what medtech companies should actually do about PFAS this year.

In this episode:

- Where PFAS sit beyond the product: process water, piping, cooling and cutting fluids, packaging, processing aids

- Why your supply chain will be interrupted before any regulatory grace period ends, and what to do about it now

- How to find PFAS in your own company without burying your suppliers in questionnaires

- Why replacing a PFAS in an existing product takes about three years, and why new development is the place to act

- Essential use and non-essential use, and why what is essential today may not be essential next year

This episode was co-hosted by Swiss Medtech.

CONNECT: Swiss Medtech https://www.swiss-medtech.ch | Barbara Mettler https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-mettler-a5705722/ | Martin Scheringer, ETH Zurich | Arne Jaksch, Jaksch LifeScience Consulting https://www.jlsc.ch

ABOUT THE PODCAST: MedTech Sustainability by Design is the show for people choosing better plastics in medical technology. Book a free consultation: https://calendly.com/lucas-pianegonda-gradical/discovery-call-gradical . Gradical: https://www.gradical.ch

Do you enjoy this podcast? Then subscribe, rate it on your platform, and join the discussion on LinkedIn! Your feedback and comments help us improve the podcast and bring you relevant topics. Let’s form a better world with plastics!

If you are a Medtech company struggling to make your devices more sustainable, let’s talk—BOOK A CALL HERE.

You can also check our Youtube Channel with lots of free trainings and resources here: Lucas R. Pianegonda - YouTube

Website: www.gradical.ch

From September 2026, the EU stops accepting green claims that nobody has verified. Self-certified labels are banned. Fines run up to 4% of annual revenue.

I talked to James Connelly, CEO of My Green Lab, the non-profit behind the ACT Ecolabel, the first third-party verified eco-label for laboratory products. Over 5,300 labs in 62 countries have engaged with My Green Lab certification, including 42 of the 50 largest biotech and pharma companies.

In this episode:

- How the ACT 2.0 label's 100-point score actually works, and why there is no on-site audit

- What the Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive bans, and what "verifiable" means for your own claims

- The line between a defensible CO2 claim and one that gets you in regulatory trouble

- Why medical devices don't have an ACT-style label yet, and what would have to change first

CONNECT WITH JAMES CONNELLY: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-connelly-55909024/

ABOUT THE PODCAST: MedTech Sustainability by Design is the show for people choosing better plastics in medical technology.

Book a free consultation: https://calendly.com/lucas-pianegonda-gradical/discovery-call-gradical

Gradical: https://www.gradical.ch

Do you enjoy this podcast? Then subscribe, rate it on your platform, and join the discussion on LinkedIn! Your feedback and comments help us improve the podcast and bring you relevant topics. Let’s form a better world with plastics!

If you are a Medtech company struggling to make your devices more sustainable, let’s talk—BOOK A CALL HERE.

You can also check our Youtube Channel with lots of free trainings and resources here: Lucas R. Pianegonda - YouTube

Website: www.gradical.ch

European hospitals are already scoring sustainability in tenders. Joachim Almdal from Care Pathway Consulting explains why the device is only 10 to 15% of the emissions across a care pathway, and why that changes what you optimise and who you have to convince.

In this episode:

- What a care pathway is, and why looking at the device alone moves the problem around instead of solving it

- Why European healthcare providers cannot hit their 2035 and 2045 targets without pushing requirements onto suppliers

- Where you can charge a green premium, where sustainability is only a tiebreaker, and why segmentation decides which one you are in

- Why your salespeople will dodge the sustainability question unless you train them, and what that costs you in tenders

CONNECT WITH JOACHIM: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/joachim-espeland-almdal-017a6973/ | Care Pathway Consulting https://carepathwayconsulting.com | Sustainable Healthcare Podcast, on Spotify and Apple

ABOUT THE PODCAST: MedTech Sustainability by Design is the show for people choosing better plastics in medical technology. Book a free consultation: https://calendly.com/lucas-pianegonda-gradical/discovery-call-gradical . Gradical: https://www.gradical.ch

Do you enjoy this podcast? Then subscribe, rate it on your platform, and join the discussion on LinkedIn! Your feedback and comments help us improve the podcast and bring you relevant topics. Let’s form a better world with plastics!

If you are a Medtech company struggling to make your devices more sustainable, let’s talk—BOOK A CALL HERE.

You can also check our Youtube Channel with lots of free trainings and resources here: Lucas R. Pianegonda - YouTube

Website: www.gradical.ch