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GAC Treatment Preferred Method for Van Etten Lake Cleanup
News
14 Sep 2021 | Iosco County-Herald
The remedial action alternatives that have been proposed are pump-and-treat by granular activated carbon, pump-and-treat by ion exchange or no action.
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‘Forever Chemicals’: The Hidden Threat From The Toxic PFAS on Your Shelf
News
14 Sep 2021 | The Guardian
Manufacturers should take a precautionary approach, by designing alternatives that biodegrade.
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EPA proposes first limits to PFAS in wastewater
Policy
14 Sep 2021
The EPA on Wednesday announced plans for regulation that would for the first time set limits on levels of PFAS, that certain manufacturers and users of the chemical compound discharge in wastewater.
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Determination of Perflourooctanoic Acid Toxicity in a Human Hepatocarcinoma Cell Line
Science
14 Sep 2021 | J Health Pollut.
PFOA is potentially hepatotoxic by triggering programmed cell death.
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Modelling the sorption behaviour of perfluoroalkyl carboxylates and perfluoroalkane sulfonates in soils
Science
14 Sep 2021 | Sci Total Environ .
This study develops a new parametric model to predict the sorption of PFAS in soils, which can be linked to the disbursement of these contaminants.
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Harnessing electronic health records to study emerging environmental disasters: a proof of concept with perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
Science
14 Sep 2021 | NPJ Digit Med
This proof-of-concept study confirms that health records can be used to study human health and disease impacts of environmental disasters and produces equivalent disease-exposure knowledge to prospective epidemiology studies while remaining cost-effective.
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Can Environmental Law Solve the 'Forever Chemical' Problem?
Science
14 Sep 2021 | Wake Forest Law Review, Forthcoming
A proposal away from the reactive toxicity honor system in favor of a precautionary approach to environmental protection.
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Temporal trends of perfluoroalkyl substances in an Australian wastewater treatment plant: A ten-year retrospective investigation
Science
14 Sep 2021 | Sci. Tot. Env.
PFBA and 5:3 FTCA showed increasing concentrations between 2010 and 2020 with over 50% coming from industrial inputs.
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Comparative characterization of microbial communities that inhabit PFAS-rich contaminated sites: A case-control study
Science
14 Sep 2021 | J Hazard Mater
Soil microbial communities were found to have adverse reactions to PFAS which may put crops at risk.
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Evaluation of the acute toxicity and neurodevelopmental inhibition of perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA) in zebrafish embryos
Science
14 Sep 2021 | Ecotoxicol Environ Saf
High levels of PFHxA exposure was associated with permanent neurological damage in a human model organism.
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Prenatal and postnatal exposure to PFAS and cardiometabolic factors and inflammation status in children from six European cohorts.
Science
14 Sep 2021 | Environ Int
Prenatal, rather than postnatal, PFAS exposure might contribute to increased obesity in children.
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Exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances associates with an altered lipid composition of breast milk
Science
14 Sep 2021 | Environ Int
Maternal exposure to PFAS impacts the nutritional quality of breast milk, which, in turn, may have a detrimental impact on the health and growth of the children later in life.
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The Problem Of ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Marinette, and the Solutions That Could Take as Long
News
13 Sep 2021 | Up North Issues
Marinette has found PFOA at levels as high as 254,000 ppt, and PFOS at levels as high as 64,000 ppt.
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Transport and environmental risks of perfluoroalkyl acids in a large irrigation and drainage system for agricultural production
Science
11 Sep 2021 | Environ Int
Up to 40% of tolerant daily intake came from humans eating contaminated aquatic organisms.
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Addressing The Impacts of PFAS in Biosolids
News
10 Sep 2021 | Water & Wastes Digest
An overview of regulations, treatment & challenges surrounding PFAS in biosolids.