Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)-main concerns and regulatory developments in Europe from an environmental point of view

Environmental Sciences Europe

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Vierke, Lena ^a,b   Staude, Claudia ^a   Biegel Engler, Annegret ^a   Drost, Wiebke ^a   Schulte, Christoph ^a  

^a UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

APFO; Candidate List; Per and polyfluorinated chemicals; PFCAs; PFCs; PFO; PFOA; REACH; Regulation; Restriction; SVHC

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIODEGRADATION; DRINKING WATER; EUROPEAN UNION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; ORGANIC ACID; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SALT; STOCKHOLM CONVENTION; SURFACE WATER; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84867090330     PISSN: 21904707     EISSN: 21904715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2190-4715-24-16     Document Type: Article

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