Novel fluorinated surfactants tentatively identified in firefighters using liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry and a case-control approach

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2434-2442

  Rotander, Anna ^a   Kärrman, Anna ^b   Toms, Leisa Maree L ^c   Kay, Margaret ^a   Mueller, Jochen F ^a   Gómez Ramos, María José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FIRE EXTINGUISHERS; KETONES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

AQUEOUS FILM FORMING FOAMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION; FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS; FLUORINATED SURFACTANT; NOVEL FLUORINATED SURFACTANTS; PERFLUOROALKYL ACIDS; POLYFLUORINATED ALKYL SUBSTANCES; QUADRUPOLE TIME-OF-FLIGHT TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRIES;

LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

PERFLUOROPENTANESULFONIC ACID; PERFUOROHEPTANESULFONIC ACID; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SURFACTANT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UOROHEXANESULFONIC ACID; UORONONANESULFONIC ACID; ALKANESULFONIC ACID; FLUOROCARBON; PERFLUOROHEXANESULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID;

FLUORINE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; QUALITY CONTROL; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; ADULT; ANALYSIS; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FIRE FIGHTER; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FIREFIGHTERS; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SULFONIC ACIDS; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923090030     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es503653n     Document Type: Article

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