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San Diego company awarded EPA grant to develop water quality test technology
News
19 Jul 2019 | City News Service (Scripps Media Inc.)
The US EPA announced that it awarded a $100,000 contract to 2W iTech, a San Diego-based technology company, to develop a low-cost method to identify trace amounts of perfluoroalkyl substances in water at a rate as small as 10 ppt.
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Evaluation of the airborne pollution by emerging contaminants using bitter orange (Citrus aurantium) tree leaves as biosamplers
Science
15 Jul 2019 | Science of The Total Environment
Citrus tree leaves used to collect airborne pollutants such as PFAS.
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Screening of textile finishing agents available on the Chinese market: An important source of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances to the environment
Science
15 Jul 2019 | Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering
Testing shows that long-chain PFAS are used in the manufacturing of textiles in levels above European Chemical Agency guidelines.
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A review of sources, multimedia distribution and health risks of novel fluorinated alternatives
Science
15 Jul 2019 | Ecotoxicol. Environ. Saf.
Alternatives to PFAS exhibited comparable potential toxicity when contrasted to legacy PFAS.
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Electrodialytic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) removal mechanism for contaminated soil
Science
8 Jul 2019 | Chemosphere
Swedish airport saw significant remediation of soil contaminated with firefighting foams containing PFAS.
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Column chromatography approach to determine mobility of fluorotelomer sulfonates and polyfluoroalkyl betaines
Science
8 Jul 2019 | Sci. of the Total Enviro.
The movement of PFAS containing firefighting foams was investigated in groundwater.
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PFAS health effects database: Protocol for a systematic evidence map
Science
5 Jul 2019 | Environ Int
A proposed method to systematically identify and organize health and toxicological data on 29 PFAS.
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Accumulation, Biotransformation, and Endocrine Disruption Effects of Fluorotelomer Surfactant Mixtures on Zebrafish
Science
28 Jun 2019 | Chem. Res. Toxicol.
Alternatives to PFOS shown to disrupt the endocrine system and impair offspring development in zebrafish, a human model organism.
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Reduction of hazardous chemicals in Swedish preschool dust through article substitution actions
Science
20 Jun 2019 | Environ Int
By selecting sustainable consumer products in preschools, lower levels of hazardous chemicals were found in dust.
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Development of an oral reference dose for the perfluorinated compound GenX
Science
18 Jun 2019 | J Appl Toxicol
An oral reference dose was developed for GenX to aid risk assessors and regulators in establishing a health-protective drinking water standard.
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Dietary Characteristics and Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Among Pre-diabetic Adults in Diabetes Prevention Program (OR17-06-19)
Science
13 Jun 2019 | Curr Dev Nutr
Diet was determined to be a major route of PFAS exposure with fried fatty-foods containing the most and dark-green vegetables containing the least PFAS.
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Using 2003–2014 U.S. NHANES data to determine the associations between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and cholesterol: Trend and implications
Science
30 May 2019 | Ecotoxicology & Environmental Safety.
Researchers linked high levels of PFOA and PFOS to increased total cholesterol.
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Longitudinal analysis reveals early-pregnancy associations between perfluoroalkyl sulfonates and thyroid hormone status in a Canadian prospective birth cohort
Science
28 May 2019 | Environ Int
PFAS exposure linked to endocrine disruption in both mothers during sensitive fetal development in long-term Canadian study.
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In vitro and in silico modeling of perfluoroalkyl substances mixture toxicity in an amphibian fibroblast cell line
Science
21 May 2019 | Chemosphere
Experimental and computational methods were developed to determine the toxicity of mixtures of PFAS.
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Seasonal Variation of Water Quality in Unregulated Domestic Wells
Science
5 May 2019 | Int J Environ Res Public Health
Private wells in the American Southwest determined to exceed the Public Health Advisory levels for PFOA and PFOS.