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Review of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) bioaccumulation in earthworms

Environmental Advances, 2023
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are widely used across the globe in commercial products such textiles, firefighting foams, and surface coatings.
Lawrence P. Burkhard, Lauren K. Votava
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Consideration of pathways for immunotoxicity of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)

Environmental Health, 2023
Background Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are of public health concern, because of their ubiquitous and extremely persistent occurrence, and depending on their structure, their bio-accumulative, mobile and toxic properties.
Veronika Ehrlich, Wieneke Bil, Rob Vandebriel, Berit Granum, Mirjam Luijten, Birgitte Lindeman, Philippe Grandjean, Andreas-Marius Kaiser, Ingrid Hauzenberger, Christina Hartmann, Claudia Gundacker, Maria Uhl   +11 more
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Toxicological Effects and Health Impacts of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Humans [PDF]

Toxics
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of synthetic chemicals notable for their high persistence and extensive applications. With the advancement of detection technologies in recent years, PFAS have been frequently identified in ...
Jie Ma, Ge Gao, Bitan Meng, Xinni Wei, Long Zhao, Zaiming Ge   +5 more
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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): History, Current Concerns, and Future Outlook [PDF]

Molecules
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) involve multiple per- and polyfluorinated compounds that are widely used globally. Legacy PFAS, including PFOA, PFOS, and PFHxS, were manufactured before 2000 in various industrialized nations, then gradually ...
Ryuichi Mashima
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in consumer products: Current knowledge and research gaps

Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters, 2023
While several sources of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are known, their use in consumer household products is far less explored. The aim of this study was to provide comprehensive bottom-up analysis of the types and concentrations of PFAS ...
Pradeep Dewapriya, Lachlan Chadwick, Sara Ghorbani Gorji, Bastian Schulze, Sara Valsecchi, Saer Samanipour, Kevin V. Thomas, Sarit L. Kaserzon   +7 more
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Managing and treating per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in membrane concentrates [PDF]

AWWA Water Science, 2021
AbstractPer‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which are present in many waters, have detrimental impacts on human health and the environment. Reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) have shown excellent PFAS separation performance in water treatment; however, these membrane systems do not destroy PFAS but produce concentrated residual ...
Emily W. Tow, Mahmut Selim Ersan, Soyoon Kum, Tae Lee, Thomas F. Speth, Christine Owen, Christopher Bellona, Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda, Anne M. Mikelonis, Paul Westerhoff, Chandra Mysore, Val S. Frenkel, Viraj deSilva, W. Shane Walker, Andrew K. Safulko, David A. Ladner   +15 more
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Associations between Exposures to Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Diabetes, Hyperglycemia, or Insulin Resistance: A Scoping Review

Journal of Xenobiotics, 2021
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are persistent environmental pollutants that are commonly found in the human body due to exposures via drinking water, surfactants used in consumer materials, and aqueous film-forming foams (AFFFs).
Rachel Margolis, Karilyn E. Sant
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An overview of the uses of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)

Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 2020
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 that are known or can be deduced from some well-studied PFAS. Currently, many different PFAS (on the order of several thousands) are used in a wide range of applications,
Juliane Glüge, Martin Scheringer, Ian T. Cousins, Jamie C. DeWitt, Gretta Goldenman, Dorte Herzke, Rainer Lohmann, Carla A. Ng, Xenia Trier, Zhanyun Wang   +9 more
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Detection of Per‐ and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) by Interrupted Energy Transfer

Angewandte Chemie, 2023
AbstractThe ubiquitous presence of per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in aqueous environments has aroused societal concern. Nonetheless, effective sensing technologies for continuous monitoring of PFAS within water distribution infrastructures currently do not exist.
Alberto Concellón, Timothy M. Swager
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure and thyroid cancer risk

eBioMedicine, 2023
Although per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure is a potential contributor to the increasing thyroid cancer trend, limited studies have investigated the association between PFAS exposure and thyroid cancer in human populations. We therefore investigated associations between plasma PFAS levels and thyroid cancer diagnosis using a nested ...
Maaike van Gerwen, Elena Colicino, Haibin Guan, Georgia Dolios, Girish N. Nadkarni, Roel C.H. Vermeulen, Mary S. Wolff, Manish Arora, Eric M. Genden, Lauren M. Petrick   +9 more
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