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Should you be concerned about PFAS chemicals?
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13 Apr 2019 | Consumer Reports
A group of substances known as PFAS chemicals are behind a variety of everyday conveniences that make our lives a little bit easier. They line pizza boxes and fast-food packaging so grease doesn’t seep through, form the nonstick coating on many pans, make fabrics and carpets stain-resistant, and help outdoor…
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Multiple crop bioaccumulation and human exposure of perfluoroalkyl substances around a mega fluorochemical industrial park, China: Implication for planting optimization and food safety
Science
13 Apr 2019 | Environ Int
Human exposure of PFAS through vegetables grown near mega flurorochemical industrial parks in China.
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The hunt is on for GenX chemicals in people
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12 Apr 2019 | Chemical & Engineering News
On a chilly day in November 2017, Beth Markesino sat in the county health department. She pushed up the sleeve of her sweater and extended her arm. A medical technician drew her blood. During her visit to the facility, Markesino spotted several people she knew and said hi…
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PFAS found at Gordie Howe International Bridge site in Detroit
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12 Apr 2019 | MLive
Michigan’s search for PFAS contamination now touches the Gordie Howe International Bridge, where multiple samples over four months on the Detroit side of the project showed the chemicals in both soil and groundwater. Now officials are ensuring that plans for soil movement and stormwater address the presence of the per-…
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Fluorinated substances pollute for billions of Euros every year
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12 Apr 2019 | Nordic Council
Almost all people have so called PFAS-substances in their bodies today. A new Nordic report estimates annual health-related costs to 2.8 – 4.6 billion EUR for the Nordic countries and 52 – 84 billion EUR for all EEA countries. Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), also…
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WI groups issue joint statement on PFAS
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12 Apr 2019 | Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger
Background Information: A statewide coalition of 28 organizations organized by CSWAB issued a joint position statement today supporting regulation of PFAS as a class of compounds. Assessing risks of chemicals having a similar mechanism of toxicity is not unusual and is similar to how…
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Gas-Phase Detection of Fluorotelomer Alcohols and Other Oxygenated Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances by Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry
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11 Apr 2019 | Environ Sci Technol Lett
U.S. EPA researchers developed a new technique that allows for real-time measurement of airborne PFAS.
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Why is high persistence alone a major cause of concern?
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11 Apr 2019 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
Increasing concentrations of PFAS, will result in increasing probabilities of the occurrence of known and unknown effects and that, once adverse effects are identified, it will take decades, centuries or even longer to reverse contamination and therefore effects.
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U.S. Congress: H.R. 2195, the "PFAs Registry Act"
Policy
10 Apr 2019
Rep. Pappas, Chris (D-NH) introduced a bill that would require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and maintain a registry for individuals who may have been exposed to PFAS due to the environmental release of aqueous film-forming foam on military installations.
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CDC maps out chemical health study, excludes cancer
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8 Apr 2019 | Bucks County Courier Times
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced its plans for a highly anticipated health study on PFAS, but the study will not assess whether or not the chemicals can cause cancer, a primary concern of impacted communities, including in Bucks and Montgomery counties. The U.S.…
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The Concept of Essential Use for Determining When Uses of PFASs Can Be Phased Out
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8 Apr 2019 | Environmental science. Processes & impacts
The article explores the concept of essential use (already defined in the Montreal Protocol) as a guide for determining which PFAS uses can already be phased out.
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Maternal serum concentrations of perfluoroalkyl substances and birth size in British boys
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8 Apr 2019 | Int J Hyg Environ Health
Prenatal exposure to high levels of PFOS may be associated with reduced birth size in male infants.
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Determination of adsorbable organically bound fluorine (AOF) and adsorbable organically bound halogens as sum parameters in aqueous environmental samples using combustion ion chromatography (CIC)
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6 Apr 2019 | Sci. Total Environ.
The use of combustion ion chromatography as a screening test was used to detect PFAS before the use of LC-MS/MS.
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U.S. Congress: H.R. 2102, the "VET PFAS Act"
Policy
4 Apr 2019
Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. (D-MI) introduced a bill that the Federal code to provide care and medical services to veterans and their dependents who may have been exposed to PFAS.
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Couple believe son’s death, their health issues result of high PFAS in drinking water
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2 Apr 2019 | MLive
After more than a decade of drinking water that recently was determined to have high levels of PFAS and related compounds, Steven and Patsy Lamb believe the ‘forever chemicals’ were behind the untimely death of their son and their own health problems…