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South Jersey company confirms use of unregulated replacement for toxic chemical
News
20 Oct 2020 | NJ Spotlight News
However, the company (Solvay Specialty Polymers) denies that it is responsible for polluting water, air and soil with a related, ‘legacy’ chemical it had been using.
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Perfluoroalkyl acids in pregnant women from Nunavik (Quebec, Canada): Trends in exposure and associations with country foods consumption
Science
20 Oct 2020 | Environ Int
The exposure of pregnant women to long-chain PFAAs (PFNA, PFDA, and PFUdA) increased from 2004 to 2017, potentially through a diet high in fish.
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Preliminary study on the distribution of metals and persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including perfluoroalkylated acids (PFAS), in the aquatic environment near Morogoro, Tanzania, and the potential health risks for humans.
Science
20 Oct 2020 | Environ Res
Potential health effects through consumption of PFOS contaminated shrimp, and to minor extent fish, are expected in Tanzania.
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‘We can never get to zero’: Organics recyclers face hard choices in responding to PFAS contamination
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19 Oct 2020 | WasteDrive
In January of this year, the Michigan city of Ann Arbor announced a grim discovery: traces of a notorious group of toxic chemicals had cropped up in the city’s compost facility.
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Identifying and Managing Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF)-Derived PFAS in the Environment
Science
19 Oct 2020 | Environ Toxicol Chem
This article presents research and development efforts to date by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program to measure PFAS in the environment, characterize AFFF sources, understand PFAS fate and transport, assess the ecological risk, develop treatment technologies for remediation, and examine the ecotoxicity of PFAS-free foams.
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[Press Release] Study: More than 200 million Americans could have toxic PFAS in their drinking water
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16 Oct 2020 | EurekAlert
PFAS pollution is affecting even more Americans than we previously estimated. They are likely detectable in all major water supplies in the U.S., almost certainly in all that use surface water.
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Sequestration and potential release of PFAS from spent engineered sorbents
Science
14 Oct 2020 | Sci of Tot Env
Used water filters were found to potentially be a secondary source of PFAS contamination.
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Gillibrand joins letter urging management of dangerous fire suppressant chemicals that contaminated Fort Drum
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14 Oct 2020 | NNY 360
The letter details how PFAS have become a major contaminant in drinking water sources for more than 650 American military bases across the world.
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The Minnesota Department of Health has started a review of PFHxA
Policy
14 Oct 2020
Interested parties can submit and discuss PFHxA toxicity studies that are relevant to human health.
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Policy, health, and justice—focus of October meeting on PFAS contaminants in drinking water
Policy
13 Oct 2020
The University of Rhode Island STEEP Superfund Research Center is hosting a conference, “PFAS In Our World: What We Know and What We Can Do,” October 13 and 14, 2020.
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Demographic and exposure characteristics as predictors of serum per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) levels - A community-level biomonitoring project in Pennsylvania
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13 Oct 2020 | Int J Hyg Environ Health
PFAS serum levels were associated with sex, age, employment in the study area, the quantity of daily tap water consumption, and length of residence in the study area.
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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Surface Water Near US Air Force Bases: Prioritizing Individual Chemicals and Mixtures for Toxicity Testing and Risk Assessment
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13 Oct 2020 | Environ Toxicol Chem
Data science was applied to characterize and prioritize PFAS and PFAS mixtures from a large dataset of PFAS measurements in surface waters associated with U.S. Air Force Installations with a history of aqueous film-forming foams use.
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Pease Health Study on PFAS in water set to resume
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9 Oct 2020 | Seacoast Online
Thousands of people working at Pease International Tradeport, along with children and infants who attended two day cares there, were exposed to multiple PFAS chemicals from contaminated water in the city-owned Haven well until its closure in 2014. The water was contaminated by firefighting foam used at the former Pease Air Force Base.
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[Op-ed] PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ are widespread and threaten human health – here’s a strategy for protecting the public
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9 Oct 2020 | The Conversation US
Given that PFAS pollution is so ubiquitous and hard to remove, many health experts assert that the only way to address it is by reducing PFAS production and use as much as possible.
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California bans PFAS firefighting foams
Policy
6 Oct 2020
California is halting the sale, manufacture, and use of firefighting foam that contains PFAS as of 2022.