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Pittsboro task force recommends “deep discounts” so poor residents can afford clean drinking water
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23 Nov 2020 | North Carolina Health News
The Pittsboro Drinking Water Task Force wants the town to provide deeply discounted reverse osmosis filtration systems to low-income residents while it continues to explore permanent solutions for a community rocked by contaminated drinking water.
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[Informational Webinar] EPA's Innovative Ways to Destroy PFAS Challenge
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23 Nov 2020
EPA is partnering with the other stakeholders, to co-sponsor a technical challenge regarding the destruction of PFAS. The challenge asks solvers to submit detailed plans for a non-thermal way of destroying PFAS in AFFF, while creating the least amount of potentially harmful byproducts with a $50,000 prize.
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Newly released data disclose Navy knew of toxic PFAS chemicals in groundwater at Grumman ‘fence line’ in 2016
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21 Nov 2020 | Riverhead Local
The Navy had not previously disclosed the data on PFAS chemicals in samples taken at the fence line system dating back to December 2017 — and in one instance, September 2016.
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Well water throughout California contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’
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19 Nov 2020 | CALmatters
Californians are largely left in the dark about the safety of their drinking water: Less than 9% of roughly 14,350 public drinking water wells in the state have been tested for PFOA and PFOS. State requirements have focused on areas considered vulnerable to contamination, such as near airports and landfills.
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Residential water wells test positive for PFAS pollution
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18 Nov 2020 | Traverse City Record Eagle
The highest level found in East Bay Township neighborhood in Michigan was 1,300 ppt (PFOS, associated with firefighting foam). The state’s limit for that chemical in drinking water is 16 ppt.
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Uptake and translocation of multiresidue industrial and household contaminants in radish grown under controlled conditions.
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18 Nov 2020 | Chemosphere
PFAS were detected in all plant tissues and contained some of the highest bioaccumulation factors.
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An exploratory analysis of poly- and per-fluoroalkyl substances in pet food packaging from the United States
Science
17 Nov 2020 | Env. Tech. & Inn.
Precursors that were oxidized to PFBA were found in pet food and packaging.
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Exposure to PFAS and small for gestational age new-borns: A birth records study in Veneto Region (Italy)
Science
17 Nov 2020 | Environ Res
Living in a contaminated area by PFAS may play a role in affecting fetal growth and support the hypothesis that PFAS exposure is a risk factor for lower than average gestational growth.
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Identifying Risk Factors for Levels of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in the Placenta in a High-Risk Pregnancy Cohort in North Carolina
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17 Nov 2020 | Environ Sci Technol
PFOS, PFHxS, PFHpS, and PFUnA were detected above the reporting limit in 99, 75, 55, and 49% of placentas, respectively.
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Perfluorocarbon-based oxygen carriers: from physics to physiology
Science
17 Nov 2020 | Europ. J of Phy
A review of the use of PFAS as cancer therapeutics, blood substitutes, and organ preservation.
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Solvay withholds data about toxic PFAS pollution in New Jersey
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17 Nov 2020 | The Intercept
New Jersey has sued Solvay Specialty Polymers over its refusal to release secret studies of its PFAS chemicals.
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Formation of perfluorocarboxylic acids (PFCAs) during the exposure of earthworms to 6:2 fluorotelomer sulfonic acid (6:2 FTSA)
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17 Nov 2020 | Sci Total Environ
Five terminal PFCA metabolites, including TFA, PFPrA, PFBA, PFPeA and PFHxA were found to be biotransformed from 6:2 FTSA in earthworms.
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Associations between polyfluoroalkyl substance and organophosphate flame retardant exposures and telomere length in a cohort of women firefighters and office workers in San Francisco
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17 Nov 2020 | medRxiv
Significant positive associations were found between PFOA and PFOS and telomere length among the whole cohort with stronger associations among firefighters.
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PFAS and Dissolved Organic Carbon Enrichment in Surface Water Foams on a Northern U.S. Freshwater Lake
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17 Nov 2020 | Environ Sci Technol
Estimates indicate that foam ingestion is a potentially important route of exposure for children and adults when they are in surface waters where foam is present.
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Associations between serum isomers of perfluoroalkyl acids and metabolic syndrome in adults: Isomers of C8 Health Project in China
Science
17 Nov 2020 | Environ Res
PFAAs isomers were associated with an increase in the risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.