Two perfluorinated compounds—perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS)—were the focus of U.S. federal regulation and a handful of lawsuits in 2016. Though the major companies ...

All plasma samples drawn from 125 alligators in Florida and South Carolina and 45 crocodiles in South Africa contain at least four different PFAAs. American alligators and South African crocodiles ...

Perfluorinated compounds, a class of manufacturing chemicals, may be harming the immune system in a way that reduces the effectiveness of standard childhood vaccines. A series of rodent experiments ...

Drinking water contamination from perfluorinated chemicals is a known concern for communities near industrial sites in the U.S. where the chemicals were once produced. Contamination that extends ...

Regulators adopt strictest standards in the nation. Besides lead, no contaminant in drinking water has provoked as loud a public outcry in the last two years in the United States as a class of ...

Mei-Huei Chen, Eun-Hee Ha, Hua-Fang Liao, Suh-Fang Jeng, Yi-Ning Su, Ting-Wen Wen, Guang-Wen Lien, Chia-Yang Chen, Wu-Shiun Hsieh and Pau-Chung Chen Background: Epidemiologic data regarding the ...

Researchers have discovered a new organic reaction that selectively converts only a specific carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond in perfluorinated compounds to other functional groups. This is expected to lead ...

1947: Perfluorinated compounds are produced at a 3M plant in Cottage Grove, Minn. 1962: DuPont issues an internal memo raising health concerns. 1967: The Naval Research Laboratory patents Aqueous Film ...

The acronyms read like a helping of toxic alphabet soup: PFOA, PFOS, PFNA, PFHpA. They number in the thousands — each representing a different compound with the same chemical foundation as those ...

American alligators and South African crocodiles populate waterways a third of the globe apart, and yet both have detectable levels of long-lived industrial and household compounds for nonstick ...