PFAS in consumer products and pathways into the environment

Peaslee, Graham

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Title

PFAS in consumer products and pathways into the environment

Author(s)

Peaslee, Graham

Issue Date

2021-04-28

Keyword(s)

• PFAS
• per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances

Abstract

Presented by: Graham Peaslee – Professor at University of Notre Dame, gpeaslee@nd.edu Co-authors: Heather Whitehead, Meghanne Tighe, Yukun Jin, Marta Venier, Yan Wu, Miriam Diamond Abstract: Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) continue to be found in drinking water supplies, in the food supply and in the blood of all north Americans. While much of this contamination arises from industrial uses of PFAS in manufacturing, or the release of PFAS from fire-fighting foams there is increasing evidence for PFAS entering the environment from municipal solid waste as well. We have developed a rapid total fluorine screening method to complement traditional chemical approaches to identify PFAS use in consumer products that end up in waste streams, and eventually the environment. Recent results from textiles, food packaging and cosmetics will be presented together with some estimates of future concerns when these products enter the environment at their end-of-life. Biography: Dr. Peaslee is a physicist at the University of Notre Dame who directs a research program in applied nuclear science to screen for chemicals of concern in our built environment as well as to measure the fate and transport of these chemicals in the natural environment. He has more than 210 peer-reviewed publications, most with student co-authors.

Series/Report Name or Number

2021 Emerging Contaminants in the Environment Conference (ECEC21)

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• text
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Language

en

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