Biomonitoring of perfluorinated compounds in children and adults exposed to perfluorooctanoate-contaminated drinking water

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 651-657

  Hölzer, Jürgen ^a   Midasch, Oliver ^b   Rauchfuss, Knut ^c   Kraft, Martin ^d   Reupert, Rolf ^c   Angerer, Jürgen ^b   Kleeschulte, Peter ^e   Marschall, Nina ^a   Wilhelm, Michael ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c North Rhine Westphalia State Agency for Nature   (Germany)

^d Ministry of the Environment and Conservation   (Germany)

^e Public Health Department of the Hochsauerlandkreis   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adults; Children; Drinking water; PFBS; PFC exposure; PFHxS; PFOA; PFOS

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; ORGANOFLUORINE DERIVATIVE; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUOROBUTANESULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROHEXANESULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROHEXANOIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; PERFLUOROPENTANOIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MALE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRINKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FLUOROCARBONS; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 44849084918     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.11064     Document Type: Article

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