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Time trends of perfluoroalkyl substances in blood in 30-year old Norwegian men and women in the period 1986-2007
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20 Apr 2021 | Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
Overall blood burdens of PFAS in men and women increased in reproductively active ages during 1986-2001 and decreases until 2007 with long-chain PFAS increasing after 2007.
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Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) thwarts the beneficial effects of calorie restriction and Metformin
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20 Apr 2021 | Toxicol Sci
PFOS exposure inhibited the beneficial effects of diabetes treatments.
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Assessing Indoor Dust Interference with Human Nuclear Hormone Receptors in Cell-Based Luciferase Reporter Assays
Science
19 Apr 2021 | Environ Health Perspect
PFAS was found to exhibit hormonal activities in humans from indoor dust.
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Long-term leaching of PFAS from contaminated agricultural soils in Germany
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19 Apr 2021 | J. Contam. Hydrol.
Analysis of field data over a time period of 12 years revealed no or slowly decreasing trends as well as seasonal fluctuations, likely due to the ongoing transformation of precursors and a seasonal influence on production rates of mobile PFAS.
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Fluorine-Specific Detection Using ICP-MS Helps to Identify PFAS Degradation Products in Nontargeted Analysis
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19 Apr 2021 | Anal Chem
The feasibility of the detection of PFAS metabolites using a fluorine-specific detection was demonstrated using a model compound and can thus be applied to new experiments and unknown organofluorine-containing samples in the future.
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For PFAS, is environmental persistence on its own enough to trigger regulation?
Policy
18 Apr 2021
California is on the verge of setting a precedent for chemical-control policy in the US. For the first time, an agency in the state plans to treat a large group of commercial substances as a class for the purpose of regulation.
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For PFAS, is environmental persistence on its own enough to trigger regulation?
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18 Apr 2021 | C&EN
California regulators intend to deem carpets and rugs treated with PFAS-based stain-resistant coatings as having “a hazard trait that can harm people or the environment.” That hazardous trait is persistence. Industry is pushing back against this rationale.
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‘Forever chemicals,’ other pollutants found around the summit of Everest
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17 Apr 2021 | Washington Post
PFAS likely shed from climbers’ outdoor gear such as parkas and tents, which are often treated with chemicals to weatherproof.
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Indoor dust contains PFAS and other toxic chemicals
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14 Apr 2021 | The Intercept
These are hormonally active compounds that can lead to adverse health effects, including infertility, diabetes, obesity, abnormal fetal growth, and cancers.
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Lawmakers, environmental activist introduce PFAS Action Act
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13 Apr 2021 | ABC News
U.S. Reps. Fred Upton (R-MI) and Debbie Dingell (D-MI) introduced legislation that aims to protect people and the environment from chemicals known as PFAS.
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Toxicological Response of Chironomus dilutus in Single Chemical and Binary Mixture Exposure Experiments with Six Perfluoralkyl Substances
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13 Apr 2021 | Environ Toxicol Chem
PFOS was found to be the most toxic PFAS to aquatic life and suggests that PFOS could be more toxic to freshwater insects than previously reported.
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Joint effects of prenatal exposure to per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances and psychosocial stressors on corticotropin-releasing hormone during pregnancy
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13 Apr 2021 | J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol
PFAS was associated with higher levels of stress hormones which affected joints in pregnant women.
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Occurrence and sources of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the ice-melting lakes of Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica
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13 Apr 2021 | Sci Total Environ
In the ice-melting lakes, PFOA, PFOS, and Cl-PFESA were detected in ice-melt lakes on the eastern side of Antarctica where there are fewer on-site human activities.
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In-Vitro and In-Silico Assessment of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF) Binding to Human Serum Albumin
Science
13 Apr 2021 | Toxics
Carboxylic acid and sulfonic acid-containing PFAS were found to bioaccumulate the most readily in human blood.
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Time Trend of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Metals in Greenlandic Inuit during 1994-2015
Science
13 Apr 2021 | Int J Environ Res Public Health
PFOS, PFHxS, and PFOA decreased across Greenland while PFNA, PFDA, and PFUnDA increased in women.