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PFAS and Dissolved Organic Carbon Enrichment in Surface Water Foams on a Northern U.S. Freshwater Lake
Science
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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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance and Cardio Metabolic Markers in Firefighters
Science
3 Nov 2020 | J Occup Environ Med
Firefighters were found to have elevated PFHxS and were not associated with cardiometabolic risk.
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PFAS: Rules on firefighting foam mired in dispute over definitions
News
28 Oct 2020 | Wisconsin State Journal
Act 101, passed late last year in Wisconsin on a bipartisan vote, restricts the use of PFAS containing foam to emergency situations and testing facilities with “appropriate containment, treatment and disposal measures” without defining those containment, treatment and disposal measures.
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New PFAS investigation launched in Grand Traverse County neighborhood
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21 Oct 2020 | UpNorthLive
The investigation is being carried out in this Michigan neighborhood because PFAS has been measured in groundwater. PFAS-containing firefighting foam has been used at Cherry Capital Airport and the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station for training purposes.
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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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EU commits to overhaul of chemicals legislation
Policy
16 Oct 2020
The European commission adopted the EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability on 14 October. This ambitious programme has been touted as the biggest reform of chemical regulations since Reach (registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals).
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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
Science
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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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.
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Synthesis and combustion inhibition efficiency of iron short-chain perfluorocarboxylates
Science
5 Oct 2020 | Fire Safety J
Short-chain PFAS were used to formulate a new phosphor-free fire-extinguishing foam.
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AGs urge Congress to keep tough PFAS language in defense bill
Policy
5 Oct 2020
Congressional leaders should advance legislation that would force the U.S. Department of Defense to comply with state laws regulating toxic “forever chemicals,” urged attorneys general in Michigan and 17 other states.
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Chemical Characterization of a Legacy Aqueous Film-Forming Foam Sample and Developmental Toxicity in Zebrafish
Science
29 Sep 2020 | Environ. Health Perspect.
100 individual PFAS were detected in AFFF with PFOS being the most toxic to developing human models species.
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Understanding, Controlling, and Preventing Exposure to PFAS: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief
Science
22 Sep 2020 | National Academies Press
This publication highlights the presentations and discussions regarding what various sectors can do to advance our understanding of the extent of human exposure to PFAS and to reduce or prevent PFAS exposure.
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Immunotoxicity of an Electrochemically Fluorinated Aqueous Film-Forming Foam
Science
14 Sep 2020 | Toxicol. Sci.
Male mice exposed to PFAS-containing fire fighting foams saw a decrease in body weight by 15% and an increase of liver weight up to 200%.
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Deterministic risk assessment of firefighting water additives to aquatic organisms
Science
8 Sep 2020 | Ecotoxicology
This study presents the first deterministic risk assessment of firefighting water additives in aquatic ecosystems.