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[Press Release] EPA Sued Over PFAS ‘Secrecy’ Reporting Loopholes
News
20 Jan 2022 | Earthjustice
Due to recently created EPA loopholes, chemical companies and the military can keep the PFAS they produce or dump in the environment secret.
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Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)-induced alterations of biomolecules in the wetland plant Alisma orientale
Science
20 Jan 2022 | Sci Total Environ
FTIR was used to demonstrate the adverse effects of PFOA on plant growth and water uptake.
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Canadian and US Perspectives on PFAS: A One Health Challenge
Events
18 Jan 2022
The MSU Health & Risk Communication Center presents a series on the history, science, impact, and challenges of PFAS in the US and Canadian context.
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Legal obstacles to toxic chemical research
Policy
17 Jan 2022
Amid debate about how policymakers should apply existing scientific findings, these science-hindering features are easy to overlook including insufficient availability of chemical standards, limited public access to information, and excessive fragmentation of information within and among government agencies.
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PFAS Update: A Retrospective on Federal PFAS Regulation in 2021
Policy
17 Jan 2022
As anticipated, 2021 was an eventful year for the regulation of PFAS at the federal level. BCLP has highlighted the key developments in this document.
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Mass-Labeled Fluorotelomer Alcohol Fragmentation Gives "False Positive" for Nonlabeled Fluorotelomer Alcohols with Implications for Consumer Product Analysis
Science
17 Jan 2022 | J Am Soc Mass Spectrom
Deuterium or hydrogen abstraction of some standards was found to produce a false positive when testing for FTOHs by chemical ionization mass spectrometry.
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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
Science
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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Bioaccumulation and impact of maternal PFAS offloading on egg biochemistry from wild-caught freshwater turtles (Emydura macquarii macquarii)
Science
17 Jan 2022 | Sci Total Environ
PFAS from the mothers were found to bioaccumulate in egg yolks which contained up to 97% of bioaccumulated PFAS, and impacted eggs had changes in metabolite, lipid, and protein levels.
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Anthropogenic Drivers of Variation in Concentrations of Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Otters () from England and Wales.
Science
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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A worldwide evaluation of trophic magnification of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in aquatic ecosystems
Science
17 Jan 2022 | Integr Environ Assess Manag
This review discusses the variability of environmental characteristics driving PFAS biomagnification in natural ecosystems and highlights the different approaches used by various studies, which can make comparisons among studies challenging.
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Cannabis may be a surprising solution to Maine’s ‘forever chemicals’ problem
News
16 Jan 2022 | BDN
It turns out that when it comes to neutralizing at least one group of toxic chemicals, the solution may be planting cannabis. Lots of it.
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Exposure of Preconception Couples to Legacy and Emerging Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: Variations Within and Between Couples
Science
16 Jan 2022 | Environ Sci Technol
Individual PFAS were generally correlated within couples though men often exhibited higher plasma concentrations, and PFAS exposure between different couples depended on annual household income, dwelling floor type, drinking water source, and living near farmlands.
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Exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid leads to promotion of pancreatic cancer
Science
16 Jan 2022 | Carcinogenesis
PFOA was found to potentially promote pancreatic cancer progression in a mice model.
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Michigan’s first PFAS site cleanup trial is scheduled to begin this year
News
12 Jan 2022 | MLive
The first civil trial to arise out of Michigan’s multi-year pursuit of cleanup at toxic PFAS contamination sites is scheduled to take place this summer.
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Injustice Forever? Toxic PFAS Chemicals Have ‘Made a Mockery of Our Environmental Regulations’
Policy
10 Jan 2022
With a lack of regulations addressing toxic “forever chemicals,” students and professors at a Vermont college have taken their research skills into communities to spur action.