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Diffusion and partitioning of different PFAS compounds through thermoplastic polyurethane and three different PVC-EIA liners
Science
26 May 2023 | Sci Total Environ
PFAS was found to diffuse through certain membranes used in landfills, potentially leading to groundwater contamination.
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Centurial Persistence of Forever Chemicals at Military Fire Training Sites
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15 May 2023 | ES&T
This work highlights the importance of unregulated and overlooked precursors for total PFAS exposure near AFFF releases and their role in sustaining high concentrations of regulated PFAS–up to 2000 times more than regulatory limits even decades after AFFF use ceased.
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Trump appointees interfered to weaken EPA assessment of toxic chemical
Policy
23 Mar 2023
Watchdog finds PFBS toxicity value was altered in 2021 report, as scientists say episode part of ‘larger rot at the agency.'
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PFAS: forever chemicals—persistent, bioaccumulative and mobile. Reviewing the status and the need for their phase out and remediation of contaminated sites
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23 Mar 2023 | ESEU
The authors of this review conclude that substituting individual PFAS recognized as hazardous with other possibly equally hazardous PFAS with virtually unknown chronic toxicity should not be a solution.
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ECHA seeks input on proposed PFAS restriction
Policy
22 Mar 2023
The European Chemicals Agency invites interested parties to send in scientific and technical information on the manufacture, placing on the market and use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by 25 September 2023.
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UK ministers under pressure to tighten laws on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
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16 Mar 2023 | The Guardian
Vast numbers of people drinking water with levels that would be banned in the US, research shows.
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EU floats plan that would ban virtually every PFAS currently on the market
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9 Feb 2023 | Chemistry World
The five countries want to essentially ban the entire class of more than 10,000 chemicals in a single stroke, including their production, use, and sale, and the impact would be significant.
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Occurrence, partitioning and transport of perfluoroalkyl acids in gas and particles from the southeast coastal and mountainous areas of China
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5 Dec 2022 | Environ Sci Pollut Res Int.
The longer the fluorinated carbon chain length of the PFAA, the more the PFAA tended to exist in the particulate phase, and PFAS in China can be widely spread through the atmosphere due to winter monsoon winds.
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Maternal exposure to perfluorobutane sulfonate (PFBS) during pregnancy: evidence of adverse maternal and fetoplacental effects in New Zealand White (NZW) rabbits
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1 Dec 2022 | Toxicol Sci
PFBS exposure during gestation may lead to renal injury, hypertension in the mother, and decreased fetal growth.
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Prenatal exposure to perfluorooctane sulfonate alternatives and associations with neonatal thyroid stimulating hormone concentration: A birth cohort study
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20 Oct 2022 | Chemosphere
Higher concentrations of prenatal PFBS was associated with lower developmental hormone concentrations in newborns.
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Swimming with PFAS in public and private pools
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11 Oct 2022 | Chemosphere
PFBA, PFHxA, PFHpA, PFOA, PFNA and PFBS were detected in every pool sample with most PFOA and PFOS levels above the new US EPA drinking water health advisory limits.
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American Chemistry Council Uses Disinformation to Target PFAS Safeguards
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8 Aug 2022 | The Equation
In its statement about the petition, the ACC claimed to support the development of drinking water standards for the PFAS chemicals PFOA PFOS, PFBS, and GenX. But it speciously charged that EPA was failing to ensure “the scientific integrity of its process.”
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Are resource recovery insects safe for feed and food? A screening approach for bioaccumulative trace organic contaminants
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1 Jun 2022 | Sci. Total Environ.
Four PFAS (PFBA, PFOA, PFBS, and PFOS) did not bioaccumulate in larvae, and non-target analysis revealed emerging PFAS present in larvae and almond hulls.
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Interaction of Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Allostatic Load among Adults in Various Occupations
Science
10 May 2022 | Diseases
Increased chronic physiological stress was positively associated with serum concentrations of certain PFAS, as well as with different occupation groups such as Public Administration and Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation.
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Environmental exposure to legacy poly/perfluoroalkyl substances, emerging alternatives and isomers and semen quality in men: A mixture analysis
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19 Apr 2022 | Sci Total Environ
6:2 Cl-PFESA, PFBS, and PFHxS exposure was associated with reduced semen quality, but there were no consistent associations between PFAS mixtures and semen quality.