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 …

[HTML][HTML] A review of recent studies on toxicity, sequestration, and degradation of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)

RA Dickman, DS Aga - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The fate, effects, and treatment of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), an
anthropogenic class of chemicals used in industrial and commercial production, are topics of …

Scientific basis for managing PFAS as a chemical class

CF Kwiatkowski, DQ Andrews… - … science & technology …, 2020 - ACS Publications
This commentary presents a scientific basis for managing as one chemical class the
thousands of chemicals known as PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances). The class …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Locally caught freshwater fish across the United States are likely a significant source of exposure to PFOS and other perfluorinated compounds

N Barbo, T Stoiber, OV Naidenko, DQ Andrews - Environmental Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, gained significant public and regulatory
attention due to widespread contamination and health harms associated with exposure …

Risk to human health related to the presence of perfluoroalkyl substances in food

EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain … - EFSA …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The European Commission asked EFSA for a scientific evaluation on the risks to
human health related to the presence of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS s) in food. Based …

Health-related toxicity of emerging per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances: Comparison to legacy PFOS and PFOA

LJL Espartero, M Yamada, J Ford, G Owens… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are highly persistent, manufactured chemicals
used in various manufacturing processes and found in numerous commercial products. With …

Remediation of poly-and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contaminated soils–to mobilize or to immobilize or to degrade?

N Bolan, B Sarkar, Y Yan, Q Li, H Wijesekara… - Journal of hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Poly-and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are synthetic chemicals, which are introduced
to the environment through anthropogenic activities. Aqueous film forming foam used in …

Accumulation of perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) in agricultural plants: A review

R Ghisi, T Vamerali, S Manzetti - Environmental research, 2019 - Elsevier
PFASs are a class of compounds that include perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances,
some of the most persistent pollutants still allowed-or only partially restricted-in several …

A review of emerging technologies for remediation of PFASs

I Ross, J McDonough, J Miles, P Storch… - Remediation …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The need for remediation of poly‐and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) is growing as a
result of more regulatory attention to this new class of contaminants with diminishing water …