Factors associated with exposure of pregnant women to perfluoroalkyl acids in North China and health risk assessment
15 Jul 2019 | Science of The Total Environment
Adverse liver effects associated with pregnant women when exposed to PFAS.
Evaluation of the airborne pollution by emerging contaminants using bitter orange (Citrus aurantium) tree leaves as biosamplers
15 Jul 2019 | Science of The Total Environment
Citrus tree leaves used to collect airborne pollutants such as PFAS.
Screening of textile finishing agents available on the Chinese market: An important source of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances to the environment
15 Jul 2019 | Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering
Testing shows that long-chain PFAS are used in the manufacturing of textiles in levels above European Chemical Agency guidelines.
High exposure to perfluorinated compounds in drinking water and thyroid disease. A cohort study from Ronneby, Sweden
15 Jul 2019 | Environmental Research
PFOS and PFHxS exposure from fire fighting foam was found not to have significant relation to throid disease levels.
Associations of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances With Incident Diabetes and Microvascular Disease
15 Jul 2019 | Diabetes Care
PFAS in blood plasma was associated with diabetes and microvascular disease.
Prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and infant growth and adiposity: the Healthy Start Study
15 Jul 2019 | Environ Int
Irregular infant weight associated with maternal PFAS concentrations.
A review of sources, multimedia distribution and health risks of novel fluorinated alternatives
15 Jul 2019 | Ecotoxicol. Environ. Saf.
Alternatives to PFAS exhibited comparable potential toxicity when contrasted to legacy PFAS.
Perfluorooctanoate and changes in anthropometric parameters with age in young girls in the Greater Cincinnati and San Francisco Bay Area
15 Jul 2019 | Int J Hyg Environ Health
PFOA is associated with decreased Body Mass Index and waist/height ratio in young girls.
Maternal Plasma per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Concentrations in Early Pregnancy and Maternal and Neonatal Thyroid Function in a Prospective Birth Cohort: Project Viva (USA)
8 Jul 2019 | Environmental Health Perspectives
Prenatal exposure to PFAS negatively influences thyroid function in both mothers and infants.
Electrodialytic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) removal mechanism for contaminated soil
8 Jul 2019 | Chemosphere
Swedish airport saw significant remediation of soil contaminated with firefighting foams containing PFAS.
Accumulation of perfluoroalkyl substances in lysimeter-grown rice in Japan using tap water and simulated contaminated water
8 Jul 2019 | Chemosphere
PFAS accumulation in rice linked to high exposures due to human consumption and use of the rice plant for animal feed and organic fertilizer.
Column chromatography approach to determine mobility of fluorotelomer sulfonates and polyfluoroalkyl betaines
8 Jul 2019 | Sci. of the Total Enviro.
The movement of PFAS containing firefighting foams was investigated in groundwater.
Occurrence of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in a large number of wild and farmed aquatic animals collected in the Netherlands
8 Jul 2019 | Chemosphere
Wild caught and farm raised marine fish meant for human consumption contained detectable levels of PFOS.
Morphometric signatures of exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in zebrafish eleutheroembryos
8 Jul 2019 | Aquat. Toxicol.
PFOS lead to changes in skeletal development, which are linked to higher rates of scoliosis in zebrafish.
PFAS health effects database: Protocol for a systematic evidence map
5 Jul 2019 | Environ Int
A proposed method to systematically identify and organize health and toxicological data on 29 PFAS.