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What products to look out for in your home that might include 'forever chemicals'
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3 Feb 2022 | The Hill
PFOA and PFOS from consumer products is low in comparison to exposure from contaminated drinking water, the agency does provide a list of some products that may contain PFAS
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CDC study finds higher-than-average PFAS blood levels in residents near New Castle Air National Guard Base
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2 Feb 2022 | WHYY News
In 2014, the drinking water supply in the area was found to contain PFAS levels above Environmental Protection Agency standards.
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A review of PFAS fingerprints in fish from Norwegian freshwater bodies subject to different source inputs
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1 Feb 2022 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
Source tracking of PFAS exposure was most successful using fish livers, with fingerprints from AFFF dominated by PFOS and PFSA and fingerprints from paper production dominated by PFCAs and high ∑PFAS and PFOS.
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Serum levels of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and body composition - A cross-sectional study in a middle-aged population
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1 Feb 2022 | Environ Res
PFOA, PFNA, and PFDA were inversely related to fat mass measurements in women but not men, while PFOS and PFHxS had no consistent associations with body composition.
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Advisory warns of PFAS in beef from Michigan cattle farm
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28 Jan 2022 | MLive
Beef from a southeast Michigan cattle farm contains unsafe levels of toxic PFAS chemicals traced to the application of wastewater biosolids as fertilizer on fields used to grow feed crops.
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Formidable legal bar shields military from PFAS lawsuits
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27 Jan 2022 | The Hill
This is the third in a four-part series.
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Background release and potential point sources of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances to municipal wastewater treatment plants across Australia
Science
24 Jan 2022 | Chemosphere
About 60% of PFAS in Australian wastewater treatment plant influent was due to background release (at a rate of 8.1-24 μg/day/person) with the remaining ~40% due to point sources including industrial activities.
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Demographic, life-style and physiological determinants of serum per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) concentrations in a national cross-sectional survey of Swedish adolescents
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17 Jan 2022 | Environ Res
Legacy PFAS were found at elevated levels throughout Swedish adolescents in addition to the novel 9Cl-PF3ONS in 5% of those tested, and females had lower serum PFAS concentration than males.
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Anthropogenic Drivers of Variation in Concentrations of Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Otters () from England and Wales.
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17 Jan 2022 | Environ Sci Technol
PFAS concentrations in otters were positively associated with effluent from wastewater treatment plants, agriculture, and a fluoropolymer production facility.
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Quantitation of linear and branched perfluoroalkane sulfonic acids (PFSAs) in women and infants during pregnancy and lactation
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10 Jan 2022 | Environ Int
A linear relation between PFSA concentrations in mothers at pregnancy week 18 and infants at six months was observed, suggesting that pregnancy and lactation are major excretion routes for PFSA, but accumulate in the infant.
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Increased levels of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) during Hurricane Dorian on the east coast of Florida
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10 Jan 2022 | Environ Res
Mean PFOS levels in surface water showed the greatest increase of 177% during the hurricane and returned to baseline levels after two days.
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SAB PFAS Review Panel meeting
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7 Jan 2022
The EPA's Science Advisory Board will be reviewing proposals regarding PFAS.
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Per-and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS) Cycling within Michigan: Contaminated Sites, Landfills and Wastewater Treatment Plants
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4 Jan 2022 | Water Research
Analysis of PFAS in Michigan waste found that landfill leachate is a primary source of PFAS to WWTPs, and treatment can increase PFAS concentrations up to 19x, yet long-chain PFAS like PFOA concentrate in biosolids.
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As PFAS Cases Persist, Wisconsin Takes Baby Steps Toward Regulating the Forever Chemicals
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4 Jan 2022 | WUWM
The Department of Health Services proposed a combined 20 ppt standard for PFOA and PFAS that would apply to the ground, surface and drinking water.
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Development and validation of an LC-MS/MS method for the quantitation of 30 legacy and emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in human plasma, including HFPO-DA, DONA, and cC6O4
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20 Dec 2021 | Anal Bioanal Chem
An assay was developed suitable for large-scale analyses of a wide range of legacy and emerging PFAS in human plasma.