Outside the safe operating space of a new planetary boundary for per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)

IT Cousins, JH Johansson, ME Salter… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
It is hypothesized that environmental contamination by per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances
(PFAS) defines a separate planetary boundary and that this boundary has been exceeded …

A review of the occurrence, transformation, and removal of poly-and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in wastewater treatment plants

SP Lenka, M Kah, LP Padhye - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
Poly-and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) comprise more than 4,000 anthropogenically
manufactured compounds with widescale consumer and industrial applications. This critical …

Revisiting the “forever chemicals”, PFOA and PFOS exposure in drinking water

SY Wee, AZ Aris - NPJ Clean Water, 2023 - nature.com
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), known as the most
detected per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in various environmental …

PFAS exposure pathways for humans and wildlife: a synthesis of current knowledge and key gaps in understanding

AO De Silva, JM Armitage, TA Bruton… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We synthesize current understanding of the magnitudes and methods for assessing human
and wildlife exposures to poly‐and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Most human exposure …

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 …

PFAS and cancer, a scoping review of the epidemiologic evidence

K Steenland, A Winquist - Environmental research, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The number of studies addressing per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
and cancer is increasing. Many communities have had water contaminated by PFAS, and …

Risk to human health related to the presence of perfluoroalkyl substances in food

EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain … - EFSA …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The European Commission asked EFSA for a scientific evaluation on the risks to
human health related to the presence of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS s) in food. Based …

A review of the pathways of human exposure to poly-and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and present understanding of health effects

EM Sunderland, XC Hu, C Dassuncao… - Journal of exposure …, 2019 - nature.com
Here, we review present understanding of sources and trends in human exposure to poly-
and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and epidemiologic evidence for impacts on cancer …

Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in breast milk: concerning trends for current-use PFAS

G Zheng, E Schreder, JC Dempsey… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
This is the first study in the last 15 years to analyze per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances
(PFAS) in breast milk collected from mothers (n= 50) in the United States, and our findings …

The overlooked short-and ultrashort-chain poly-and perfluorinated substances: A review

M Ateia, A Maroli, N Tharayil, T Karanfil - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Poly-and perfluorinated substances (PFAS) comprise more than 3000 individual
compounds; nevertheless, most studies to date have focused mainly on the fate, transport …