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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.

• 67 experts to Regan: Crack down on 'serious risks' of PFAS

  Policy

  16 Mar 2021

  A group of nearly 70 science experts are calling on EPA Administrator Michael Regan to crack down on "forever chemicals.

• Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and their alternatives in paper food packaging

  Science

  16 Mar 2021 | Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf

  The difficulty in finding a viable replacement for PFAS chemicals that is cost-effective, fully biodegradable, and environmentally sound underscores the need for more research to improve barrier properties and process economics in food packaging products.

• Dietary patterns and PFAS plasma concentrations in childhood: Project Viva, USA

  Science

  16 Mar 2021 | Environ Int

  Children with higher intake of the packaged foods and fish dietary pattern had higher plasma concentrations of all PFAS, particularly MeFOSAA and PFOS.

• Exposure to Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Mortality for COVID-19: A Spatial Ecological Analysis in the Veneto Region (Italy)

  Science

  12 Mar 2021 | Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health

  Residents of Veneto, Italy, an area with historic PFAS contamination in drinking water, had a higher mortality risk for COVID-19.

• Regulating PFAS as a Chemical Class under the California Safer Consumer Products Program

  Science

  22 Feb 2021 | Environ Health Perspect

  In this commentary, we present the rationale adopted by the State of California's DTSC for regulating PFAS as a class in certain consumer products.

• Household low pile carpet usage was associated with increased serum PFAS concentrations in 2005-2006

  Science

  9 Feb 2021 | Environ Res

  Low pile carpet is associated with increased serum PFHxS and MeFOSAA concentrations.

• Sorbent assisted immobilisation of perfluoroalkyl acids in soils - effect on leaching and bioavailability

  Science

  9 Feb 2021 | J Hazard Mater

  A preliminary assessment of the long-term stability of the treatment, assessed after a three-year curing period, suggested that the sorbent continued to be effective in reducing PFAS in leachates, thus showing the potential of this sorbent to hinder further environmental contamination.

• Aquatic toxicity evaluations of PFOS and PFOA for five standard marine endpoints

  Science

  2 Feb 2021 | Chemosphere

  In addition to providing effects data for PFOA and PFOS, this study indicates these species and endpoints are sensitive to PFAS such that their use will be appropriate for deriving toxicity data with other PFAS in marine ecosystems.

• EPA Delivers Results on PFAS Action Plan

  Policy

  26 Jan 2021

  The U.S. EPA announced a suite of actions from across the agency that will continue the significant progress the agency has made to implement the PFAS Action Plan—the most comprehensive cross-agency plan ever to address an emerging chemical of concern.

• Degradation and effect of 6:2 fluorotelomer alcohol in aerobic composting of sludge

  Science

  26 Jan 2021 | Biodegradation

  6:2 FTOH was found to decrease the microbial richness and diversity of sludge compost.

• Federal Government Human Health PFAS Research Workshop

  Science

  25 Jan 2021 | NAS

  Proceedings of a workshop help by various federal agencies over the federal context for PFAS research, human exposure, experimental toxicology, human health outcomes, and cross-cutting issues in PFAS risk assessment.

• U.S. EPA’s Interim Guidance on PFAS Destruction and Disposal lacks adequate precision

  News

  21 Jan 2021 | JDSupra

  Following the guidance’s recommendations is not a "get-out-of-jail-free" card; improper disposal or incomplete destruction of PFAS that may occur, even if following the guidance, does not protect a company from a government enforcement action or an action for damages under, for example, federal or state statutes, or common law.

• Organic contaminants of emerging concern in leachate of historic municipal landfills

  Science

  19 Jan 2021 | Env. Poll.

  PFAS are present in 60-year-old landfill at levels comparable to the present day.

• Atmospheric particulate represents a source of C8–C12 perfluoroalkyl carboxylates and 10:2 fluorotelomer alcohol in tree bark

  Science

  18 Jan 2021 | Environ. Poll.

  Overall, this study provides the first evidence that atmospheric particulate is an obvious source of C8–C12 PFCAs and 10:2 FTOH in tree bark.