Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
The Discovery and Analysis of PFAS (‘Forever Chemicals’) in Human Blood and Biological Materials |
| Authors: |
Anthony S. Travis |
| Source: |
Substantia (2024) |
| Publisher Information: |
Firenze University Press, 2024. |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
LCC:History (General) and history of Europe
LCC:Chemistry |
| Subject Terms: |
Forever chemicals, Organic fluorine in biological materials, PFAS, PFOA, PFOS, exposure to PFAS, History (General) and history of Europe, Chemistry, QD1-999 |
| More Details: |
This paper reviews the development of analytical techniques used prior to the early 1980s in the identification of organofluorine compounds in human blood. The compounds of interest are industrial products, the so-called Forever Chemicals, which are stable long-chain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that are highly resistant to breakdown. Because of their special properties they have been used since the 1950s in a wide range of commercial and domestic products. Academic research in the 1960s and 1970s that originally focused on fluoride in dentistry and human health led to the finding that PFAS were present in the blood of residents of several cities in the United States. This, and concerns over their toxic properties, encouraged industrial research into analytical methods for their detection. Notably, and because long-chain PFAS are nonvolatile, special techniques were developed for analysis by gas chromatography. |
| Document Type: |
article |
| File Description: |
electronic resource |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
2532-3997 |
| Relation: |
https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/subs/article/view/2377; https://doaj.org/toc/2532-3997 |
| DOI: |
10.36253/Substantia-2377 |
| Access URL: |
https://doaj.org/article/58d3445d3f1849c19d7163a4cc785d72 |
| Accession Number: |
edsdoj.58d3445d3f1849c19d7163a4cc785d72 |
| Database: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
