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PFAS Contamination: Of 21 Barnstable Ponds Tested, 21 Had Contaminants, Town Report Finds
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4 Oct 2021 | Cape Cod Times
Seven samples had PFAS levels that exceeded the state drinking water standard.
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What’s After PFAS For Paper Food Packaging?
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3 Oct 2021 | C&EN
As US states ban the use of ‘forever chemicals’ in these products, papermakers are turning to other materials—without disclosing what’s in them.
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Maryland to Resume Use of Pesticide After EPA Testing Doesn’t Detect PFAS
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3 Oct 2021 | The Baltimore Sun
EPA tested several Permanone 30-30 samples for 28 different varieties of PFAS using a new method called the “oily matrix” test.
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[Press Release] Gore-Tex Manufacturer Announces Availability of New PFAS-Free Membrane, But Still Uses ‘Forever Chemicals’ to Make Its Outdoor Apparel and Gear
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30 Sep 2021 | Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families
Gore will offer a new option for the key membrane that provides waterproofing in its consumer outdoor clothing products.
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Planned MAUHS Turf Field Prompts PFAS Concerns
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29 Sep 2021 | Bennington Banner
The turf field and track vendors told project planners that testing has shown PFAS chemicals are not present in the artificial surface.
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[Press Release] North Carolina Groups Announce EPA Will Act On PFAS Testing Petition Within 90 Days
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29 Sep 2021 | The Center for Environmental Health
This testing would provide Cape Fear River basin communities with vital information on the health impacts of decades of pollution from PFAS released to the environment from the Chemours facility in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
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Can determination of extractable organofluorine (EOF) be standardized? First interlaboratory comparisons of EOF and fluorine mass balance in sludge and water matrices
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28 Sep 2021 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
Combining multiple analytical chemistry methods, unknown PFAS were found in a variety of liquid samples.
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An integrated approach for chemical water quality assessment of an urban river stretch through Effect-Based Methods and emerging pollutants analysis with a focus on genotoxicity
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28 Sep 2021 | J Environ Manage
Chemical analyses confirmed that in the aquatic ecosystems there is a diffuse presence, even at low concentrations, of PFAS.
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Evaluation, optimization, and application of three independent suspect screening workflows for the characterization of PFASs in water
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28 Sep 2021 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
Computational methods were combined to better evaluate the presence and consequence of PFAS in water.
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An amine-functionalized olefin-linked covalent organic framework used for the solid-phase microextraction of legacy and emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in fish
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28 Sep 2021 | J. Hazard. Mater
The bioconcentration kinetics for goldfish was studied, which can provide a feasible platform for investigating the accumulated ion and toxicity of PFAS.
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Impact of the increasing concentrations of selected perfluoroalkyl acids on the observed concentrations of red blood cell folate among US adults aged ≥20 years
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28 Sep 2021 | ESPR
Non-Hispanic blacks as compared to non-Hispanic whites were found to have higher levels of PFAS in their red blood cells than whites.
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Ticks as novel sentinels to monitor environmental levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
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28 Sep 2021 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
Four different species of ticks, across two states, were analyzed for 53 PFAS, with the most detects in wetlands.
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Associations among maternal perfluoroalkyl substance levels, fetal sex-hormone enzymatic gene polymorphisms, and fetal sex hormone levels in the Hokkaido study
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28 Sep 2021 | Reprod Toxicol
PFAS exposure was associated with abnormal hormone levels leading to disrupted development.
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Exposure to Perfluoro-Octanoic Acid Associated With Upstream Uncoupling of the Insulin Signaling in Human Hepatocyte Cell Line
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28 Sep 2021 | Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)
PFOA was found to inhibit the growth and development of liver cells.
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Evaluation of per- and poly-fluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) in livers of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) found stranded along the northern Adriatic Sea
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28 Sep 2021 | Environ Pollut
Long-chain PFAS are widespread in bottlenose dolphins along the North Adriatic Sea, with a total of 17 PFAS found.