Emerging environmental contaminants: A global perspective on policies and regulations

M Puri, K Gandhi, MS Kumar - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Emerging contaminants include many synthetic or natural substances, such as
pharmaceuticals and personal care products, hormones, and flame retardants that are not …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] PFAS molecules: a major concern for the human health and the environment

E Panieri, K Baralic, D Djukic-Cosic, A Buha Djordjevic… - Toxics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of over 4700 heterogeneous
compounds with amphipathic properties and exceptional stability to chemical and thermal …

[HTML][HTML] PFAS: forever chemicals—persistent, bioaccumulative and mobile. Reviewing the status and the need for their phase out and remediation of contaminated …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Current contributions of organofluorine compounds to the agrochemical industry

Y Ogawa, E Tokunaga, O Kobayashi, K Hirai… - Iscience, 2020 - cell.com
Summary Currently, more than 1,200 agrochemicals are listed and many of these are
regularly used by farmers to generate the food supply to support the expanding global …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in the regulation of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): a scoping review

NM Brennan, AT Evans, MK Fritz, SA Peak… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Products containing per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been used for
decades in industrial and consumer products. These compounds are persistent in the …

Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the environment

MG Evich, MJB Davis, JP McCord, B Acrey… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Over the past several years, the term PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances) has grown
to be emblematic of environmental contamination, garnering public, scientific, and regulatory …

[HTML][HTML] The high persistence of PFAS is sufficient for their management as a chemical class

IT Cousins, JC DeWitt, J Glüge, G Goldenman… - … Science: Processes & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of synthetic organic substances with
diverse structures, properties, uses, bioaccumulation potentials and toxicities. Despite this …

Communicating confidence of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substance identification via high-resolution mass spectrometry

JA Charbonnet, CA McDonough, F Xiao… - … science & technology …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are important environmental contaminants, yet
relatively few analytical reference standards exist for this class. Nontarget analyses …