The report comes days after the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that two widely used PFAS chemicals, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS ...

In January 2014, a Consultation Document on the Proposed Risk Management Measure for Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA), its Salts and its Precursors was published. Comments and the Government's response ...

World Semiconductor Council (WSC) announced last month that it successfully completed the phase-out of intentional uses of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts, and PFOA-related compounds in ...

umcutrecht.nl Objectives: To identify the mechanism of interleukin (IL)7-stimulated tumour necrosis factor α (TNFα) production and to determine the relationship between intra-articular IL7 and TNFα ...

Mr. Tennant was a farmer in West Virginia whose property contained a creek that ran next to an unlined landfill in which DuPont had discharged thousands of tons of sludge containing PFOA since the ...

The sample also had 4.5 parts per trillion of PFOA, 0.5 above the enforceable limit, and detectable levels of another PFAS, PFHxS, at 5.1 parts per trillion, though that is about half of the limit.

Clean water was provided from 16 December 2013. Objective To determine the rates of decline in serum perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHxS), perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate (PFOA), ...

Though most US companies have phased out manufacturing of the most well-studied types of PFAS chemicals, PFOS and PFOA, they remain widespread in the environment due to their lack of degradation.

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