Bioindicators for monitoring atmospheric perfluorinated compounds: review of occurrences, transport, fate and analytical protocols

Environmental Chemistry, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 22(2)

Опубликована: Март 24, 2025

Environmental context Perfluorinated compounds are emerging organic contaminants recently detected in various environmental matrices and remain largely unregulated. Among these matrices, air is the least studied one due to analytical challenges. This review explores trends analysing perfluorinated with use of bioindicators highlights future research needs address existing gaps detection monitoring. Abstract (PFCs) persistent pollutants extensive industrial applications, including firefighting foams, nonstick coatings textiles. Their contamination widespread their resistance degradation long-range atmospheric transport, leading presence ecosystems. PFCs pose significant hazards, bioaccumulation, endocrine disruption, hormonal imbalances potential carcinogenic effects. Despite ubiquity compartments, studies limited provides first comprehensive analysis biomonitoring atmosphere using bioindicators. The databases consulted for include Web Science, Scopus, ScienceDirect, PubMed Google Scholar. By examining literature, we identify key gaps, highlight limitations underscore need standardised methods improve monitoring accuracy.

Язык: Английский

Mapping chemicals across EU’s legal frameworks towards a ‘one substance, one assessment’ approach

Environment International, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 109460 - 109460

Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2025

Chemicals in the EU are mainly regulated based on their intended use. Each legal framework consists of requirements and guidance for hazard- risk assessment, along with associated decision processes e.g., registration or authorisation chemicals market access EU. As a single chemical may have multiple uses, it be assessed under more than one framework, potentially leading to different assessment outcomes. To address this, European Commission has introduced 'one substance, assessment' approach as part Strategy Sustainability. The aims include streamlining reducing duplication work assessing same chemical. This study aimed map scope subject frameworks illustrate importance coordination communication processes. was achieved by identifying that either registered received specific approval market, analysing presence frameworks. Our findings showed almost one-tenth substances identified were listed framework. However, there notable lack coherent identifiers available accurately identify across Additionally, we phthalates, bisphenols PFAS how group-based could applied

Язык: Английский

Diet quality in relation to serum perfluoroalkyl substance concentrations in Canadian preadolescents

Environmental Research, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 121790 - 121790

Опубликована: Май 1, 2025

Язык: Английский