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CA PFAS Webinar
Events
30 Mar 2021
The American Groundwater Trust will be hosting a webinar on PFAS contamination in California.
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Solving the Challenges of PFAS
Events
30 Mar 2021
The Royal Society of Chemistry will be holding a webinar to discuss the British strategy to identify where the chemical sciences can provide solutions to challenges associated with the management and regulation of PFAS in consumer goods and industrial processes.
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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Outdoor and Indoor Dust from Mainland China: Contributions of Unknown Precursors and Implications for Human Exposure
Science
30 Mar 2021 | Environ Sci Technol
From 2013 to 2017, the median concentration of total PFAS in outdoor dust tripled with an elevated contribution of trifluoroacetic acid and 6:2 fluorotelomer alcohol.
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High-throughput transcriptomic analysis of human primary hepatocyte spheroids exposed to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as a platform for relative potency characterization
Science
30 Mar 2021 | Toxicol Sci
The data indicate that PFOA, PFBS, PFOS, and PFDA may have common molecular targets and toxicities, but that PFOS and PFDS are the most similar.
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Environmental exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances mixture and male reproductive hormones
Science
30 Mar 2021 | Environ Int
PFAS mixtures were found to inhibit the production of key reproductive hormones in men.
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Association between urinary per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances and COVID-19 susceptibility
Science
30 Mar 2021 | Environ Int
Elevated exposure to PFAS was independently associated with an increased risk of COVID-19 infection.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in Swedish household dust and exposure of pet cats
Science
29 Mar 2021 | Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
Dust was found to be a relevant exposure pathway for the ingestion of some PFAS for cats, and the serum levels of PFAS could be of relevance for the cat's health.
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A tale of PFAS, pollution, and patent claims
News
27 Mar 2021 | C&EN
Analytical reference standards are not known for attracting intrigue and drama. Recently, though, the specter of patent infringement lawsuits has prevented researchers from quantifying environmental contamination by a perfluorinated “forever chemical.”
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl mixtures toxicity assessment "Proof-of-Concept" illustration for the hazard index approach
Science
25 Mar 2021 | J Toxicol Environ Health A
Hazard index scores were used as an initial assessment of multiple health effects of fluorinated mixtures.
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Suspect Screening, Prioritization, and Confirmation of Environmental Chemicals in Maternal-Newborn Pairs from San Francisco
Science
24 Mar 2021 | Environ Sci Technol
Methyl perfluoroundecanoate and 2-perfluorooctyl ethanoic acid were found in newborns during a critical development period.
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The new PFAS C6O4 and its effects on marine invertebrates: First evidence of transcriptional and microbiota changes in the Manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum
Science
23 Mar 2021 | Environ Int
PFOA replacement was found not to be significantly less toxic.
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PFAS Water Lawsuits Expose Financial Impacts on State’s Poor Communities
Policy
22 Mar 2021
Santa Clarita, a comfortable exurb of some 213,000 residents about 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles, is one of hundreds of California communities and districts grappling with the pricey problem of drinking water that’s been tainted by PFAS.
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PFOS dominates PFAS composition in ambient fine particulate matter (PM) collected across North Carolina nearly 20 years after the end of its US production
Science
22 Mar 2021 | Environ Sci Process Impacts
This is the first US study to provide insights into ambient PFAS concentrations in PM2.5.
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Can microbes save us from PFAS?
News
21 Mar 2021 | C&EN
And Alvarez believes in the microbial infallibility hypothesis—that a microbe will find a way to [degrade] even tough compounds like PFAS. “I am certain that it can happen,” he says.
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Risks posed by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on the African continent, with an emphasis on aquatic ecosystems
Science
16 Mar 2021 | Integr Environ Assess Manag
As African nations industrialize PFAS contamination is thought to spread.