Temporal trends of perfluoroalkane sulfonic acids and their sulfonamide-based precursors in herring from the Swedish west coast 1991-2011 including isomer-specific considerations

Environment International

Volumn 65, Issue , 2014, Pages 63-72

  Ullah, Shahid ^a   Huber, Sandra ^b,c   Bignert, Anders ^d   Berger, Urs ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^d SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Herring muscle; Human exposure; Perfluorooctane sulfonamides; PFOS; Precursors; Temporal trends

Indexed keywords

AMIDES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FISH; MUSCLE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

HUMAN EXPOSURES; PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONAMIDE; PFOS; PRECURSORS; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

ISOMERS;

ACETONITRILE; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUOROALKANE SULFONAMIDE; PERFLUOROALKANE SULFONAMIDOACETIC ACID; PERFLUOROALKANE SULFONAMIDOETHANOL; PERFLUOROALKANE SULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROBUTANE SULFONIC ACID; PERFLUORODECANE SULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROHEXANE SULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOACCUMULATION; CLUPEOID; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOOD CONSUMPTION; MUSCLE; ORGANOFLUORINE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SERUM; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HERRING; ISOMER; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIVER LEVEL; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MUSCLE LEVEL; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA FOOD; SEASHORE; SWEDEN; TOXICOKINETICS; TREND STUDY; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; WATER CONTAMINATION;

KATTEGAT; SWEDEN;

HERRING MUSCLE; HUMAN EXPOSURE; PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONAMIDES; PFOS; PRECURSORS; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; FLUOROCARBONS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; LIVER; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SULFONAMIDES; SWEDEN; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TIME; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84892894421     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2014.01.005     Document Type: Article

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