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PFAS - Friday 13th of November - News roundup
science
-don't play with foam on water
-tests if AFFF caused the contam
-rapid AFFF PFAS testing
-work on faster sensors
-gestational weight gain
news
-NJ sues Solvay, they have been polluting for decades
-Biden to target PFAS, but.
science
-don't play with foam on water
-tests if AFFF caused the contam
-rapid AFFF PFAS testing
-work on faster sensors
-gestational weight gain
news
-NJ sues Solvay, they have been polluting for decades
-Biden to target PFAS, but.
1. Foam is a problem on AFFF impacted waterways
"foam ingestion is a potentially important route of exposure for children and adults"
& I definitely played with foam on lakes and rivers as a kid, AFFF impacted? https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c05697
"foam ingestion is a potentially important route of exposure for children and adults"
& I definitely played with foam on lakes and rivers as a kid, AFFF impacted? https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c05697
2. This cool paper involved the development of a bayesian interference model for predicting the contribution of #AFFF to the PFAS detected in water after testing using the TOP assay https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00798
3. More AFFF testing, this paper takes on figuring out what or if there is PFAS in the AFFF mixture https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c04798
4. PFOS detection using electrochemical sensing - working towards fast deployable sensors, but not there yet.
-just have to keep on the the electrochemical sensor work or face the wrath of my former phd advisor https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssensors.0c01894
-just have to keep on the the electrochemical sensor work or face the wrath of my former phd advisor https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssensors.0c01894
5. small gestational weight gain in women with higher levels of PFOA, PFOS, PFNA https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33181449/
6. NJ sues @SolvayGroup for decades of contamination from the PFNA replacement #PFAS ether compounds detected in the water in soil in New Jersey. Secret testing show them to be a toxic as PFOA or PFNA according to the state
@ryanfelton https://www.consumerreports.org/water-contamination/new-jersey-sues-solvay-over-alleged-water-contamination-from-new-pfas-compound/
@ryanfelton https://www.consumerreports.org/water-contamination/new-jersey-sues-solvay-over-alleged-water-contamination-from-new-pfas-compound/
7. A look at how the Biden administration will take on PFAS by @faberfamilyfarm https://www.ewg.org/news-and-analysis/2020/11/how-will-biden-administration-tackle-forever-chemicals
8. and @fastlerner with a piece on a Biden transition team member McCabe who led DuPont's defense of PFOA https://theintercept.com/2020/11/11/biden-epa-transition-dupont-mccabe/
and more on how DuPont worked EPA https://theintercept.com/2015/08/20/teflon-toxin-dupont-slipped-past-epa/
and more on how DuPont worked EPA https://theintercept.com/2015/08/20/teflon-toxin-dupont-slipped-past-epa/
9. a preprint (not yet peer-reviewed) study of women fire-fighters and office workers that finds a (+) association between PFAS and telomere length, with larger effects in firefighters https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7654908/
