Biological monitoring of polyfluoroalkyl substances: a review

M Houde, JW Martin, RJ Letcher… - … science & technology, 2006 - ACS Publications
Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFSs) are used in industrial and commercial products and can
degrade to persistent perfluorocarboxylates (PFCAs) and perfluoroalkyl sulfonates (PFSAs) …

Synthesis of environmentally relevant fluorinated surfactants—a review

HJ Lehmler - Chemosphere, 2005 - Elsevier
In the past years there has been a growing interest in fluorinated persistent organic
pollutants such as perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, perfluorooctanesulfonamides …

Sorption of perfluorinated surfactants on sediments

CP Higgins, RG Luthy - Environmental science & technology, 2006 - ACS Publications
The sorption of anionic perfluorochemical (PFC) surfactants of varying chain lengths to
sediments was investigated using natural sediments of varying iron oxide and organic …

Using stable isotope biogeochemistry to study marine mammal ecology

SD Newsome, MT Clementz… - Marine Mammal Science, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope analysis (SIA) has emerged as a common tool in ecology and has proven
especially useful in the study of animal diet, habitat use, movement, and physiology. SIA has …

A global survey of perfluorinated acids in oceans

N Yamashita, K Kannan, S Taniyasu, Y Horii… - Marine pollution …, 2005 - Elsevier
Perfluorinated acids and their salts have emerged as an important class of global
environmental contaminants. Biological monitoring surveys conducted using tissues of …

Quantitative determination of perfluorochemicals in sediments and domestic sludge

CP Higgins, JA Field, CS Criddle… - Environmental science & …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Perfluorochemicals (PFCs) are the subject of increasingly intense environmental research.
Despite their detection both in biota and in aqueous systems, little attention has been paid to …

[HTML][HTML] Perfluorinated compounds in aquatic organisms at various trophic levels in a Great Lakes food chain

K Kannan, L Tao, E Sinclair, SD Pastva… - Archives of …, 2005 - Springer
Trophic transfer of perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) and other related perfluorinated
compounds was examined in a Great Lakes benthic foodweb including water–algae–zebra …

Sonochemical decomposition of perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoic acid

H Moriwaki, Y Takagi, M Tanaka… - … science & technology, 2005 - ACS Publications
Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) are shown to be
globally distributed, environmentally persistent, and bioaccumulative. Although the toxicities …

Perfluoroalkyl contaminants in a food web from Lake Ontario

JW Martin, DM Whittle, DCG Muir… - Environmental science & …, 2004 - ACS Publications
Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) is a persistent and bioaccumulative perfluorinated acid
detectable in humans and wildlife worldwide that has alerted scientists to examine the …

Bioaccumulation of per-and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) in selected species from the Barents Sea food web

M Haukås, U Berger, H Hop, B Gulliksen… - Environmental …, 2007 - Elsevier
The present study reports concentrations and biomagnification potential of per-and
polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) in species from the Barents Sea food web. The …