Outside the safe operating space of a new planetary boundary for per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)

IT Cousins, JH Johansson, ME Salter… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
It is hypothesized that environmental contamination by per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances
(PFAS) defines a separate planetary boundary and that this boundary has been exceeded …

PFAS exposure pathways for humans and wildlife: a synthesis of current knowledge and key gaps in understanding

AO De Silva, JM Armitage, TA Bruton… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We synthesize current understanding of the magnitudes and methods for assessing human
and wildlife exposures to poly‐and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Most human exposure …

Exposure to per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances and markers of liver injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis

E Costello, S Rock, N Stratakis, SP Eckel… - Environmental …, 2022 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Experimental evidence indicates that exposure to certain pollutants is
associated with liver damage. Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent …

PFAS molecules: a major concern for the human health and the environment

E Panieri, K Baralic, D Djukic-Cosic, A Buha Djordjevic… - Toxics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of over 4700 heterogeneous
compounds with amphipathic properties and exceptional stability to chemical and thermal …

Revisiting the “forever chemicals”, PFOA and PFOS exposure in drinking water

SY Wee, AZ Aris - NPJ Clean Water, 2023 - nature.com
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), known as the most
detected per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in various environmental …

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 …

Trends in the regulation of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): a sco** review

NM Brennan, AT Evans, MK Fritz, SA Peak… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Products containing per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been used for
decades in industrial and consumer products. These compounds are persistent in the …

PFAS and cancer, a sco** review of the epidemiologic evidence

K Steenland, A Winquist - Environmental research, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The number of studies addressing per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
and cancer is increasing. Many communities have had water contaminated by PFAS, and …

[HTML][HTML] Exposure to environmental contaminants is associated with altered hepatic lipid metabolism in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

P Sen, S Qadri, PK Luukkonen, O Ragnarsdottir… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background & aims Recent experimental models and epidemiological studies suggest that
specific environmental contaminants (ECs) contribute to the initiation and pathology of non …

A review of microbial degradation of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Biotransformation routes and enzymes

A Berhanu, I Mutanda, J Taolin, MA Qaria… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the 1950s, copious amounts of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)(dubbed
“forever chemicals”) have been dumped into the environment, causing heavy contamination …