Assessing exposure to legacy and emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances via hair - The first nationwide survey in India
3 May 2019 | Chemosphere
Biomonitoring data obtained from hair analysis have been evidenced to provide insight into retrospective human exposure to PFAS in India.
Prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances is associated with lower hand, foot and mouth disease viruses antibody response in infancy: Findings from the Guangzhou Birth Cohort Study
1 May 2019 | Science of the Total Environment.
High levels of PFAS linked to higher susceptibility to Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease in newborn children in Chinese cohort study.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in two different populations of northern cardinals
1 May 2019 | Chemosphere.
North American cardinals where used as an indicator species to investigated exposure levels in humans.
Exposure to Environmental Pollutants and Their Association with Biomarkers of Aging: A Multipollutant Approach
1 May 2019 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
Environmental pollutants, such as PFAS, impacts the biomarkers of aging.
Exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and associations with thyroid parameters in First Nation children and youth from Quebec
24 Apr 2019 | Environ Int
PFAS exposure in Canadian indigenous communities children linked to endocrine disruption.
Perfluorinated alkylated substances serum concentration and breast cancer risk: Evidence from a nested case-control study in the French E3N cohort
22 Apr 2019 | Int. J. Cancer
Exposure to PFAS linked to potential risk factor for breast cancer.
Socioeconomic position and exposure to multiple environmental chemical contaminants in six European mother-child cohorts
19 Apr 2019 | Int J Hyg Environ Health
A European cohort study found that higher socioeconomic positions correlates to higher exposure to certain contaminants, such as PFAS, than compared to lower socioeconomic positions.
Identification of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in the Cape Fear River by High Resolution Mass Spectrometry and Nontargeted Screening
17 Apr 2019 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
Non-target screening for PFAS in the Cape Fear River of North Carolina found what is thought to represent byproducts of different flurorochemical production lines.
Use of Aqueous Film-Forming Foams and Knowledge of Perfluorinated Compounds among Florida Firefighters
15 Apr 2019 | J. Occup. Environ. Med.
A assessment of current state of knowledge of the use of aqueous film-forming foams among Florida firefighters.
Multiple crop bioaccumulation and human exposure of perfluoroalkyl substances around a mega fluorochemical industrial park, China: Implication for planting optimization and food safety
13 Apr 2019 | Environ Int
Human exposure of PFAS through vegetables grown near mega flurorochemical industrial parks in China.
Why is high persistence alone a major cause of concern?
11 Apr 2019 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
Increasing concentrations of PFAS, will result in increasing probabilities of the occurrence of known and unknown effects and that, once adverse effects are identified, it will take decades, centuries or even longer to reverse contamination and therefore effects.
Gas-Phase Detection of Fluorotelomer Alcohols and Other Oxygenated Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances by Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry
11 Apr 2019 | Environ Sci Technol Lett
U.S. EPA researchers developed a new technique that allows for real-time measurement of airborne PFAS.
The Concept of Essential Use for Determining When Uses of PFASs Can Be Phased Out
8 Apr 2019 | Environmental science. Processes & impacts
The article explores the concept of essential use (already defined in the Montreal Protocol) as a guide for determining which PFAS uses can already be phased out.
Maternal serum concentrations of perfluoroalkyl substances and birth size in British boys
8 Apr 2019 | Int J Hyg Environ Health
Prenatal exposure to high levels of PFOS may be associated with reduced birth size in male infants.
Determination of adsorbable organically bound fluorine (AOF) and adsorbable organically bound halogens as sum parameters in aqueous environmental samples using combustion ion chromatography (CIC)
6 Apr 2019 | Sci. Total Environ.
The use of combustion ion chromatography as a screening test was used to detect PFAS before the use of LC-MS/MS.