Are PFCAs bioaccumulative? A critical review and comparison with regulatory criteria and persistent lipophilic compounds.

By J. Conder, R. Hoke, W. de Wolf, M. H. Russell, R. Buck. Environmental Science and Technology, 2008

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• Global emission inventories for C4-C14 perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acid (PFCA) homologues from 1951 to 2030, Part I: production and emissions from quantifiable sources. (2014, background): “, 2008; Young and Mabury, 2010), bioaccumulative (Conder et al., 2008; ECHA, 2013), and have been detected globally in the abiotic environment (Rayne and Forest, 2009), biota (Giesy and Kannan, 2001), food items (Picó et al.”
• Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in the Environment: Terminology, Classification, and Origins (2011, background): “…(CnF2nþ1SO3H, n 6, PFSAs) and perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (CnF2nþ1COOH, n 7, PFCAs) and their corresponding anions (USEPA 2009; OECD 2011), which have been shown to be more bioaccumulative than their short-chain analogues (Martin et al. 2003a, 2003b; Conder et al. 2008; Olsen et al. 2009).”
• Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), an emerging drinking water contaminant: a critical review of recent literature. (2012, background): “PFOA is much less bioaccumulative in fish than other PFCs with a longer fluorinated carbon chain (Conder et al., 2008).”
• PFAS Exposure Pathways for Humans and Wildlife: A Synthesis of Current Knowledge and Key Gaps in Understanding (2020, background): “…BCFs and BAFs (liters per kilogram) of individual PFAAs in plankton, aquatic gill‐ventilating invertebrates, and fish increase with increasing perfluoroalkyl chain length and hydrophobicity (Condor et al. 2008), though exceptions have been identified (Munoz et al. 2017; Zhang et al. 2019).”
• Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances: current and future perspectives (2011, background): “It is known that PFSAs aremore bioaccumulative than PFCAs of the same fluorinated carbon chain length.([45]) Worldwide biomonitoring studies of wildlife and humans have unequivocally documented that PFOS was the most predominant PFAS species.”