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 …

The high persistence of PFAS is sufficient for their management as a chemical class

IT Cousins, JC DeWitt, J Glüge, G Goldenman… - … Science: Processes & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of synthetic organic substances with
diverse structures, properties, uses, bioaccumulation potentials and toxicities. Despite this …

Evaluation of developmental toxicity, developmental neurotoxicity, and tissue dose in zebrafish exposed to GenX and other PFAS

S Gaballah, A Swank, JR Sobus… - Environmental …, 2020 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a diverse class of industrial
chemicals with widespread environmental occurrence. Exposure to long-chain PFAS is …

Strategies for grou** per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to protect human and environmental health

IT Cousins, JC DeWitt, J Glüge, G Goldenman… - … Science: Processes & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Grou** strategies are needed for per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), in part,
because it would be time and resource intensive to test and evaluate the more than 4700 …

[HTML][HTML] Worldwide trends in tracing poly-and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the environment

SF Nakayama, M Yoshikane, Y Onoda… - TrAC Trends in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Numerous poly-and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been manufactured and
distributed on the world market. Research on PFAS has highlighted their global distribution …

[HTML][HTML] Next generation per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances: status and trends, aquatic toxicity, and risk assessment

H Mahoney, Y **e, M Brinkmann, JP Giesy - Eco-Environment & Health, 2022 - Elsevier
Widespread application of poly-and per-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) has resulted in some
substances being ubiquitous in environmental matrices. That and their resistance to …

Per/polyfluoroalkyl substances production, applications and environmental impacts

R Dhore, GS Murthy - Bioresource technology, 2021 - Elsevier
The per/polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are growing contaminants which are extremely
difficult to get degraded naturally. PFAS have been produced for nearly a century using …

Assessing the human health risks of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances: a need for greater focus on their interactions as mixtures

AF Ojo, C Peng, JC Ng - Journal of hazardous materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Humans are exposed to complex mixtures of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
However, human health risk assessment of PFAS currently relies on animal toxicity data …

Why is high persistence alone a major cause of concern?

IT Cousins, CA Ng, Z Wang… - … Science: Processes & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Persistence is a hazard criterion for chemicals enshrined in chemical regulation worldwide.
In this paper, we argue that the higher the persistence of a chemical, the greater the …