An overview of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the environment: Source, fate, risk and regulations

Z Abunada, MYD Alazaiza, MJK Bashir - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
The current article reviews the state of art of the perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl
substances (PFASs) compounds and provides an overview of PFASs occurrence in the …

Per‐and polyfluoroalkyl substances and their alternatives in paper food packaging

G Glenn, R Shogren, X Jin, W Orts… - … Reviews in Food …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Per‐and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been used in food contact paper and
paperboard for decades due to their unique ability to provide both moisture and oil/grease …

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 …

Guideline levels for PFOA and PFOS in drinking water: the role of scientific uncertainty, risk assessment decisions, and social factors

A Cordner, VY De La Rosa, LA Schaider… - Journal of exposure …, 2019 - nature.com
Communities across the US are discovering drinking water contaminated by perfluoroalkyl
and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and determining appropriate actions. There are …

Exposure to contemporary and emerging chemicals in commerce among pregnant women in the United States: the Environmental Influences on Child Health …

JP Buckley, JR Kuiper, DH Bennett… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Prenatal chemical exposures can influence maternal and child health; however, few
industrial chemicals are routinely biomonitored. We assessed an extensive panel of …

[HTML][HTML] The social life of the “forever chemical”: PFAS pollution legacies and toxic events

D Renfrew, TW Pearson - Environment and Society, 2021 - berghahnjournals.com
This article examines the social life of PFAS contamination (a class of several thousand
synthetic per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances) and maps the growing research in the social …

Radiolabelling and in vivo radionuclide imaging tracking of emerging pollutants in environmental toxicology: a review

Y Fan, D Pan, M Yang, X Wang - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Emerging pollutants (EPs) have become a global concern, attracting tremendous attention
because of serious threats to human and animal health. EP diversity emanates from their …

Toward Property-Based Regulation

TD Muellers, PV Petrovic, JB Zimmerman… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
An expanding web of adverse impacts on people and the environment has been steadily
linked to anthropogenic chemicals and their proliferation. Central to this web are the …

Managing ubiquitous 'forever chemicals': More‐than‐human possibilities for the problem of PFAS

E Buttle, EL Sharp, K Fisher - New Zealand Geographer, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We provide a perspective on the ubiquity of PFAS (a suite of unique per‐and polyfluoroalkyl
substances, or 'forever chemicals') as toxic, pervasive and environmentally persistent more …

Elevated levels of perfluoroalkyl substances in breast cancer patients within the Greater Manila Area

MC Velarde, AFO Chan, MEJV Sajo, I Zakharevich… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Several studies have reported exposure of humans to various endocrine disrupting
chemicals (EDCs) worldwide. However, there is a lack of data regarding EDC exposures in …