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Global Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Associated Burden of Low Birthweight
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31 Mar 2022 | Environ Sci Technol
Human exposure to PFOA may have contributed to approximately 500,000 cases per year of low birth weight during the past two decades, predominantly from Asian regions.
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Years after flags, Wolverine Worldwide plant caught in PFAS probe
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30 Mar 2022 | MLive
Investigators have finally made their way to a Wolverine Worldwide facility where the company manufactured shoe parts near the Rogue River, five years after the initial discovery of widespread toxic ‘forever chemical’ pollution in the northern Kent County suburbs.
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PFAS in household waste may be going airborne
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28 Mar 2022 | Environmental Health News
Now ‘PFAS in air emissions and incineration are becoming more of a focus,’ Lydia Jahl, a science and policy associate for the Green Science Policy Institute, told EHN.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in the blood of police and Beagle dogs from Harbin, China: Concentrations and associations with hematological parameters
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28 Mar 2022 | Chemosphere
Dominant PFAS in the blood of dogs were found to be PFOA, PFBA, and PFOS, and PFAS exposure was linked to many changes in biochemical blood parameters like cholesterol.
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The relationship between multiple perfluoroalkyl substances and cardiorespiratory fitness in male adolescents
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22 Mar 2022 | Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res.
Exposure to PFAS, mainly PFNA, is associated with a decrease in cardiorespiratory health in young men, possibly via alterations in white blood cell count.
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Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Risk of Myocardial Infarction and Stroke: A Nested Case–Control Study in Sweden
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22 Mar 2022 | EHP
Exposure to PFAS was associated with increased cholesterol levels but not an increased risk of myocardial infarction or stroke.
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How the way we eliminate toxic PFAS from water also takes an environmental toll
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21 Mar 2022 | WHYY.org
But protecting people’s health has a consequence: The technology most effective at removing PFAS contributes to the carbon footprint.
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PFAS cosmetics studies are “springboard” for litigation
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18 Mar 2022 | Environmental Health News
Cosmetics companies could face litigation if their products are found to contain PFAS, warn attorneys, as a rash of recent lawsuits hit companies touting themselves as clean but whose products contain evidence of “forever chemicals.”
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Characterization of organophosphate esters (OPEs) and polyfluoralkyl substances (PFASs) in settled dust in specific workplaces
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15 Mar 2022 | Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res.
PFAS content in house dust was ten times higher than that in workplaces, while OPE concentrations were higher in workplaces.
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Nearly 900 spills of toxic firefighting foam occurred over past 30 years
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11 Mar 2022 | The Hill
Nearly 900 spills of firefighting foam containing toxic “forever chemicals” have occurred across the country since 1990, new data published by the EPA revealed.
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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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Current Breast Milk PFAS Levels in the United States and Canada: After All This Time, Why Don't We Know More?
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28 Feb 2022 | Environ Health Perspect
The authors emphasize the need to study PFAS in breast milk and found that all average estimated and measured breast milk PFOA and PFOS concentrations exceeded drinking water screening values for children, sometimes by more than two orders of magnitude.
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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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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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From cohorts to molecules: Adverse impacts of endocrine disrupting mixtures
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21 Feb 2022 | Science
A mixture of endocrine-disrupting chemicals identified in pregnant women, including PFAS, phthalates, and BPA, were found to cause abnormalities in two model organisms and may also be associated with language delay in humans.