PFAS: forever chemicals—persistent, bioaccumulative and mobile. Reviewing the status and the need for their phase out and remediation of contaminated sites

H Brunn, G Arnold, W Körner, G Rippen… - Environmental Sciences …, 2023 - Springer
Background Per-and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) have received increasing
scientific and political attention in recent years. Several thousand commercially produced …

Emerging environmental contaminants: A global perspective on policies and regulations

M Puri, K Gandhi, MS Kumar - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Emerging contaminants include many synthetic or natural substances, such as
pharmaceuticals and personal care products, hormones, and flame retardants that are not …

An overview of the uses of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)

J Glüge, M Scheringer, IT Cousins, JC DeWitt… - … Science: Processes & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are of concern because of their high persistence
(or that of their degradation products) and their impacts on human and environmental health …

Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the environment

MG Evich, MJB Davis, JP McCord, B Acrey… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Over the past several years, the term PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances) has grown
to be emblematic of environmental contamination, garnering public, scientific, and regulatory …

Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in breast milk: concerning trends for current-use PFAS

G Zheng, E Schreder, JC Dempsey… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
This is the first study in the last 15 years to analyze per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances
(PFAS) in breast milk collected from mothers (n= 50) in the United States, and our findings …

Uncovering global-scale risks from commercial chemicals in air

Q Liu, L Li, X Zhang, A Saini, W Li, H Hung, C Hao, K Li… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Commercial chemicals are used extensively across urban centres worldwide, posing a
potential exposure risk to 4.2 billion people. Harmful chemicals are often assessed on the …

[HTML][HTML] Bioaccumulation and trophic magnification of emerging and legacy per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in a St. Lawrence River food web

G Munoz, L Mercier, SV Duy, J Liu, S Sauvé… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Research on per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in freshwater ecosystems has
focused primarily on legacy compounds and little is still known on the presence of emerging …

Population-wide exposure to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances from drinking water in the United States

DQ Andrews, OV Naidenko - Environmental Science & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The extent of ongoing exposure to the general public from per-and polyfluoroalkyl
substances (PFAS) in drinking water in the United States and worldwide remains uncertain …

Legacy and emerging per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances: analytical techniques, environmental fate, and health effects

RA Brase, EJ Mullin, DC Spink - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Due to their unique chemical properties, per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have
been used extensively as industrial surfactants and processing aids. While several types of …

Are fluoropolymers really of low concern for human and environmental health and separate from other PFAS?

R Lohmann, IT Cousins, JC DeWitt… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Fluoropolymers are a group of polymers within the class of per-and polyfluoroalkyl
substances (PFAS). The objective of this analysis is to evaluate the evidence regarding the …