Polyfluoroalkyl compounds in the aquatic environment: a review of their occurrence and fate.

By L. Ahrens. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2011

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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• Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in water and wastewater: A critical review of their global occurrence and distribution (2021, background): “For instance, (Rayne and Forest, 2009; Houde et al., 2011; Ahrens, 2011; Ahrens and Bundschuh, 2014; Rahman et al., 2014; Jian et al., 2017; Xiao, 2017; Sunderland et al., 2019; Vo et al., 2020; Schulz et al., 2020; Winchell et al., 2021), reviewed the occurrence, fate, effect, exposure of PFAS in…”
• PFAS Exposure Pathways for Humans and Wildlife: A Synthesis of Current Knowledge and Key Gaps in Understanding (2020, background): “Concentrations of PFOS and other PFAA have been detected in invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals worldwide (Ahrens 2011; Reiner and Place 2015; Penland et al. 2020).”
• Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in the Environment: Terminology, Classification, and Origins (2011, background): “Nevertheless, given the vast number of publications on the most common PFASs, such as the perfluoroalkyl sulfonic and carboxylic acids and their anions and salts, the reader is referred to published reviews and extensive surveys for comprehensive literature compilations for these compounds (e.g., Ka”
• PFAS Concentrations in Soils: Background Levels versus Contaminated Sites (2020, background): “, 2006; Rayne and Forest, 2009; Ahrens, 2011; Krafft and Riess, 2015). Their widespread distribution coupled with their persistence and potential human-health impacts have fomented interest in PFAS transport and fate in the environment, an accurate understanding of which is critical to robust risk a”
• Short-chain perfluoroalkyl acids: environmental concerns and a regulatory strategy under REACH (2018, background): “6), showing that short-chain PFAAs are very mobile, which is also confirmed by their environmental distribution [44, 45].”
• Fate and effects of poly‐ and perfluoroalkyl substances in the aquatic environment: A review (2014, neutral): “As a consequence, per fl uorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), one of the most frequently detected PFASs in the environment [5,6], and its precursors have been added to Annex B of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants list in 2009, which resulted in a global restriction on its production…”
• Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances: current and future perspectives (2011, background): “Studies have shown that wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are important sources of PFASs, especially PFOS and PFOA, to the aquatic ecosystems.([18,31]) Modelling studies have also shown that WWTPs are the predominant sources of PFASs in the aquatic environment,([32]) although diffuse non-point sou”