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Inside FDA’s ‘forever chemicals’ catastrophe
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7 Mar 2022 | E&E News
Lawyers for DuPont knew the Food and Drug Administration had a serious concern that the company’s new food packaging product might be toxic.
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Non-Target Discovery of Emerging PFAS Homologues in Dagang Oilfield: Multimedia Distribution and Profiles in Crude Oil
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7 Mar 2022 | SSRN
Oil exploitation activities can be a significant underlying source of PFAS to the environment, including newly identified PFAS.
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Cleaning up Forever Chemicals in Construction: Informing Industry Change
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7 Mar 2022 | MDPI
Given increased concerns around PFAS contamination in construction, the authors recommend the Environmental Protection Agency employ individuals with construction industry experience for stronger regulation and recommend that large organizations could be targeted by the sustainability rating schemes to speed up the management of PFAS.
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Legacy and Emerging Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Behave Distinctly in Spatial Distribution and Multimedia Partitioning: A Case Study in the Pearl River, China
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7 Mar 2022 | Environ Sci Technol
Factors influencing PFAS partitioning and bioaccumulation were examined, and the emerging PFAS notably had higher bioaccumulation factors than legacy PFAS containing the same perfluorinated carbons.
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PFAS concentrations in breast milk exceed screening values for drinking water
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4 Mar 2022 | Healio
Mean concentrations of PFAS in women’s breast milk exceeded drinking water screening values for children, according to findings published in Environmental Health Perspectives.
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[Job] Postdoctoral Research Associate at Michigan State University
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3 Mar 2022
Michigan State University seeks a postdoctoral research associate to conduct EPA- and USDA-funded projects to study the occurrence, sorption, transport, plant uptake, and risk assessment of PFAS, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products (PPCPs).
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EU proposes ban on PFAS in firefighting foams
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28 Feb 2022 | C&EN
The European Union would ban all per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in firefighting foams under a Feb. 23 proposal from the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).
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An Outdoor Aging Study to Investigate the Release of Per- And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) from Functional Textiles
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28 Feb 2022 | ES&T
Each side-chain fluorinated polymer containing textile finish emitted a distinct pattern following weathering, and in some cases, the concentrations exceeded regulatory limits for textiles.
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[Invited Perspective] Current Breast Milk PFAS Levels in the United States and Canada Indicate Need for Additional Monitoring and Actions to Reduce Maternal Exposures
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28 Feb 2022
Addressing the higher breast milk concentrations from maternal exposure to PFAS in drinking water will require identifying contaminated drinking water sources and establishing health-protective PFAS drinking water guidelines that consider both exposures and risks to breastfed infants.
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Comparative Toxicity of Aquatic PFAS Exposure in Three Species of Amphibians
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28 Feb 2022 | Environ Toxicol Chem
Chronic exposure to PFOS, PFOA, PFHxS, and 6:2 FTS can negatively affect amphibian body condition and development at low concentrations.
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Evaluation and validation of methodologies for the extraction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in serum of birds and mammals
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28 Feb 2022 | Anal Bioanal Chem
Protein precipitation and enhanced matrix removal were found to be fast and effective methodologies for the extraction of PFAS from low volumes of serum.
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Maternal Perfluorinated Compound Exposure and Risk of Early Pregnancy Loss: A Nested Case-control Study
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28 Feb 2022 | Biomed Environ Sci
Higher maternal serum concentrations of PFDA and PFUdA were associated with an elevated risk of early pregnancy loss within 12 weeks of gestation.
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Association between maternal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure and newborn telomere length: Effect modification by birth seasons
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28 Feb 2022 | Environ Int
A higher maternal PFOA concentration was significantly associated with shorter newborn telomere length in spring-born infants but not in those born in other seasons.
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Monitoring breast milk for PFAS
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24 Feb 2022 | Science Daily
While there is over 20 years of biomonitoring data on PFAS in human serum and urine, scientists and physicians have a limited understanding of the level of these chemicals in breast milk.
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Ski wax industry giving ‘forever chemicals’ the boot
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23 Feb 2022 | Boise State Public Radio News
On a recent unseasonably warm February day, Straubhar said it had been a few years since he first heard that PFAS was a problem in high-end ski waxes. He said “fluorinated” or PFAS additives had been in some form or another for decades.