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Prenatal exposure to perfluorooctane sulfonate alternatives and associations with neonatal thyroid stimulating hormone concentration: A birth cohort study
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20 Oct 2022 | Chemosphere
Higher concentrations of prenatal PFBS was associated with lower developmental hormone concentrations in newborns.
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Lack of ‘forever chemicals’ testing could be leaving most victims in the dark
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19 Oct 2022 | The Hill
Sandy Wynn-Stelt had thought her Michigan home was across the street from a Christmas tree farm, but she said in a lawsuit settled earlier this year that it was actually a toxic dump that contaminated her water.
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DuPont, Chemours, 3M Sued by N.C. Attorney General Over PFAS
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19 Oct 2022 | Bloomberg Law
DuPont de Nemours Inc., the Chemours Co., and 3M Co. are among more than a dozen companies that produced firefighting foam with “forever chemicals” while knowing their connection to human health harms, according to complaints from the North Carolina attorney general.
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PFAS pollute 83% of U.S. waterways
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18 Oct 2022 | E&E News
The overwhelming majority of U.S. waterways are likely polluted with “forever chemicals,” according to a grim new analysis that comes as the country marks a half-century of its landmark water protection law.
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Exposure to a mixture of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances modulates pulmonary expression of ACE2 and circulating hormones and cytokines
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18 Oct 2022 | Toxicol Appl Pharmacol
The effects of PFAS exposure in mice on gene expression and hormones were studied with respect to susceptibility to viral infections such as COVID-19.
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Analysis of Per- and Poly(fluoroalkyl) Substances (PFASs) in Highly Consumed Seafood Products from U.S. Markets
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17 Oct 2022 | J Agric Food Chem
Bottom-feeding organisms tend to have the highest PFAS concentrations, followed by lean fish, fatty fish, and aquaculture with PFUdA and PFDoA being the most frequently detected chemicals.
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Plasma concentrations of perfluoroalkyl acids and their determinants in youth and adults from Nunavik, Canada
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14 Oct 2022 | Chemosphere
Long-chain PFAAs levels were 4–7 fold higher in Nunavik Inuit adults compared to the Canadian population and were associated with hunting activity, omega-3 fatty acids, and drinking water from environmental sources.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and psychosocial stressors have a joint effect on adverse pregnancy outcomes in the Atlanta African American Maternal-Child cohort
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14 Oct 2022 | Sci Total Environ
Psychosocial stress including depression, anxiety, stress, and gendered racial stress may amplify associations between an increase in PFAS and reduced birthweight.
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See where toxic PFAS have been used in Pennsylvania fracking wells
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13 Oct 2022 | Environmental Health News
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’, also known as PFAS, have been used in at least eight oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania, but the exact location of those wells has never been publicly disclosed — until now.
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Occurrences of legacy and emerging per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in human milk in China: Results of the third National Human Milk Survey (2017–2020)
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12 Oct 2022 | J. Hazard. Mater.
Potential hazard from PFAS exposure through breastmilk, especially from high PFOA exposure, was observed throughout China.
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Presumptive Contamination: A New Approach to PFAS Contamination Based on Likely Sources
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12 Oct 2022 | ES&T
A contamination model was used to create a map of presumptive PFAS contamination sites in the United States, identifying more than 57,000 sites including industrial facilities, wastewater treatment plants, current or former military sites, and airports.
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Use and release of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in consumer food packaging in US and Canada
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11 Oct 2022 | Chemosphere
Most food packaging does not contain intentionally added PFAS, indicating that PFAS are not necessary for food packaging, yet the thousands of tonnes of PFAS still used have the potential to contaminate the environment and waste streams.
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Swimming with PFAS in public and private pools
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11 Oct 2022 | Chemosphere
PFBA, PFHxA, PFHpA, PFOA, PFNA and PFBS were detected in every pool sample with most PFOA and PFOS levels above the new US EPA drinking water health advisory limits.
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Targeted analysis and total oxidizable precursor assay of several insecticides for PFAS
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10 Oct 2022 | JHM Letters
PFOS was detected in 6 out of 10 tested insecticides at concentrations up to 19,200,000 ppt, with 7 additional PFAS found via non-targeted techniques.
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Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ detected in commonly used insecticides in US, study finds
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7 Oct 2022 | The Guardian
Toxic PFAS chemicals have been detected in seven out of 10 insecticides tested in the US, according to new research.