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 …

Assessing the ecological risks of per‐and polyfluoroalkyl substances: Current state‐of‐the science and a proposed path forward

GT Ankley, P Cureton, RA Hoke… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Per‐and poly‐fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) encompass a large, heterogenous group of
chemicals of potential concern to human health and the environment. Based on information …

Strategies for grouping 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
Grouping 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 …

What are the effects of PFAS exposure at environmentally relevant concentrations?

GM Sinclair, SM Long, OAH Jones - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
The group of synthetic chemicals known as poly and per-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are
currently of high concern to environmental regulators and the public due to their widespread …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances on PFAS degradation via thermal and nonthermal methods

S Verma, T Lee, E Sahle-Demessie, M Ateia… - Chemical engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a set of synthetic chemicals which contain
several carbon-fluorine (C‒F) bonds and have been in production for the past eight …

Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances and the associated thyroid cancer risk: A case-control study in China

H Li, M Yang, J Yang, S Seery, C Ma, Y Liu, X Zhang… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
The role of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as thyroid carcinogens is
unclear. Therefore, we intended to identify associations between each PFAS congener and …

Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in soil and sediments: occurrence, fate, remediation and future outlook

MB Ahmed, MAH Johir, R McLaughlan… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are contaminants of great concern
due to their wide-spread occurrence and persistence in the environments (ie, in water, soil …

Translocation, bioaccumulation, and distribution of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in plants

B Xu, W Qiu, J Du, Z Wan, JL Zhou, H Chen, R Liu… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are persistent in the environment and
have been detected in a variety of plants such as vegetables, cereals, and fruits. Increasing …

Application of a framework for grouping and mixtures toxicity assessment of PFAS: A closer examination of dose-additivity approaches

PE Goodrum, JK Anderson, AL Luz… - Toxicological …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Environmental occurrence and biomonitoring data for per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances
(PFAS) demonstrate that humans are exposed to mixtures of PFAS. This article presents a …