Decline in perfluorooctanesulfonate and other polyfluoroalkyl chemicals in American red cross adult blood donors, 2000-2006

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 4989-4995

  Olsen, Geary W ^a   Mair, David C ^b   Church, Timothy R ^c   Ellefson, Mark E ^a   Reagen, William K ^a   Boyd, Theresa M ^b   Herron, Ross M ^b   Medhdizadehkashi, Zahra ^b   Nobiletti, John B ^b   Rios, Jorge A ^b   Butenhoff, John L ^a   Zobel, Larry R ^a  

^a 3M COMPANY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3M COMPANY (CO); PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONATE (PFOS);

N ETHYLPERFLUOROOCTANESULFONAMIDOACETATE; N METHYLPERFLUOROOCTANESULFONAMIDOACETATE; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUOROBUTANESULFONATE; PERFLUOROHEXANESULFONATE; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONYL FLUORIDE; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID;

ADULT; BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SERUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD LEVEL; CALCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLUORINATION; HALF LIFE TIME; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RED CROSS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TELOMERE;

ADULT; AGED; ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCTANOIC ACIDS; SULFONIC ACIDS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; UNITED STATES;

3M COMPANIES; ANALYTES; DONOR CENTERS; EXPOSURE SOURCES; FLUOROPOLYMER; GENERAL POPULATION; GEOMETRIC MEAN; HALF LIVES; HUMAN POPULATION; LOWER LIMIT OF QUANTITATIONS; PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONATES; PERFLUOROOCTANOATE; PLASMA CONCENTRATION; PLASMA SAMPLES; SERUM SAMPLES; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BLOOD; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUORINE; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 46849114503     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es800071x     Document Type: Article

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