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Air Force won’t follow NH’s new PFAS water safeguards
News
18 Sep 2020 | Seacoastonline.com
U.S. Air Force officials said they will continue to follow the EPA’s “lifetime health advisory” for PFAS and not New Hampshire’s more protective standards.
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EU agency sets limit on PFAS in food
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17 Sep 2020 | Chemical & Engineering News
Recommended threshold applies to combined exposure to 4 PFAS, based on their ability to decrease people’s immune system response to vaccinations.
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[Press Release] PFAS in food: EFSA assesses risks and sets tolerable intake
Policy
17 Sep 2020
When stetting the new, extremely low threshold for PFOS, PFOA, PFNA, and PFHxS, the European Food Safety Authority considered the decreased response of the immune system to vaccination as the most critical human health effect.
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Coronavirus creates delay in Pentagon research for alternative to 'forever chemicals,' official says
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15 Sep 2020 | The Hill
The coronavirus has caused a delay in researching alternatives to using cancer-linked chemicals in military firefighting foam, the director of the Defense Department’s Strategic Environment Research and Development Program said Tuesday.
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Multiphase distribution and spatial patterns of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) associated with catchment characteristics in a plain river network
Science
15 Sep 2020 | Chemosphere
PFAS were found to travel and accumulate in different parts of river systems.
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Animal size impacts perfluoroalkyl acid (PFAA) concentrations in muscle tissue of estuarine fish and invertebrate species
Science
15 Sep 2020 | Env. Poll.
Weight and PFAS concentrations were inversely related in estuarine and marine invertebrates.
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Legacy and Novel Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Juvenile Seabirds from the US Atlantic Coast
Science
15 Sep 2020 | Environ Sci Technol .
These results detail concentrations of legacy and novel PFAS across different marine ecosystems along the US Atlantic East Coast.
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Advanced PFAS precursor digestion methods for biosolids
Science
15 Sep 2020 | Environ. Chem.
A review of current PFAS-detection methods found them significantly underestimating total PFAS-loads in wastewater and biosolid matrices.
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Faster, on-site way to detect PFAS
News
15 Sep 2020 | Science Daily
The only way to prevent PFAS entering the food chain, is to minimise or remove the chemicals from the environment -- making early detection a highly desirable part of this removal process.
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Assessing the Ecological Risks of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: Current State-of-the Science and a Proposed Path Forward.
Science
15 Sep 2020 | Environ. Toxicol. Chem.
This paper summarizes discussions concerning ecotoxicology and ecological risks of PFAS.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in contaminated coastal marine waters of the Saudi Arabian Red Sea: a baseline study
Science
15 Sep 2020 | Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
PFHxA, PFHxS, and 6:2 FTS were the most prevalent PFAS in the Red Sea.
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Association between exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and blood glucose in pregnant women
Science
15 Sep 2020 | Int J Hyg Environ Health
PFAS exposure was linked to impaired glucose metabolism among young adults.
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Lethal and sublethal toxicity of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in chronic tests with Hyalella azteca (amphipod) and early-life stage tests with Pimephales promelas (fathead minnow).
Science
15 Sep 2020 | Ecotoxicol. Environ. Saf.
Long-term toxicity of PFOA exposure was investigated using model organisms.
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Association between exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and metabolic syndrome and related outcomes among older residents living near a Science Park in Taiwan
Science
15 Sep 2020 | Int J Hyg Environ Health
PFNA and PFOS were found to be positively associated with uric acid levels, especially in elderly males.
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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%.