• sale of PFAS or products that contain them; these include W. L. Gore & Associates (the maker of Gore-Tex), H&M, Patagonia, REI, and 3M. PFAS producers...
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  • Parafluoroamphetamine Performic acid See also PFAS, Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances Probabilistic finite automaton .pfa, Printer Font ASCII, a file extension...
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  • Look up PFAS in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. PFAS or PFASs are per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a large class of synthetic chemicals. PFAS or PFASS...
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  • The PFA-100 (Platelet Function Assay or Platelet Function Analyser) is a platelet function analyser that aspirates blood in vitro from a blood specimen...
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    PFAS chemicals on behalf of a proposed nationwide class of everyone in the United States who has PFAS chemicals in their blood, against several PFAS manufacturers...
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    Professional Footballers' Association Team of the Year (often called the PFA Team of the Year, or simply the Team of the Year) is an annual award given...
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  • and PFOS. PFAS compounds and their derivatives are widely used in many products from water resistant textiles to fire-fighting foam. PFAS are commonly...
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    to PFAS contamination. In 2021 Daikin, 3M, Toray, BFI Waste Systems, and Synagro paid a $98.5 million settlement with the city of Decatur over PFAS dumping...
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    Footballers' Association Men's Players' Player of the Year (often called the PFA Men's Players' Player of the Year, the Players' Player of the Year, or simply...
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    indicate that DuPont started release PFAS into the area beginning in 1976 with the production of Nafion, and that PFAS including GenX had been released as...
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  • use. It is composed of expanded PTFE (ePTFE), a stretched out form of the PFAS compound polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). Gore-Tex was co-invented by Wilbert...
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  • from PFAs for 3M came from the sale of firefighting foam to the Navy in the 1960s. By the 1970s, 3M was aware of the environmental dangers of PFAs[citation...
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    organizations. The purpose of a PFAS is to halt a fall and prevent the worker from making bodily contact with a surface below. The PFAS consists of an anchorage...
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    Service Commission. One-third of PFAS quota is filled by promotion from Audit and Accounting officers' cadre. PFAS officers, regardless of their mode...
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    substances, or PFAS used for nonstick, water- and stain-repellent items. GenX is a replacement PFAS, since older and more toxic PFAs are being phased...
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    seats in the session following the 2008 elections. To combat the threat of PFAS contamination, the Wisconsin legislature included $125 million in the state...
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    adherence to industry standards for PFAS detection in their independent testing, while also noting that Prime's PFAS levels exceeded the EPA's recommended...
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  • analysis which found 257 "unknown" PFAS being released from Fayetteville Works, (aside from the 100 'known' PFAS which can be quantified. Cape Fear River...
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    manner of many other PFAS. For example, in a study sponsored by the Swedish EPA, Swedish ski wax technicians, who have high PFAS exposure, did not have...
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  • or other oxidizing agents that can oxidize PFAS and break its C−C bonds. However, the remediation of PFAS depends on the environmental medium where the...
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    lipstick (62%). As many as 13 types of individual PFAS compounds were found in each product. Since PFAS compounds are highly mobile, they are readily absorbed...
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    litigation for its per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination of water sources and soil. PFAS, a group of more than 4,000 compounds used in nonstick...
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  • Devil We Know, investigating DuPont's cover-ups of the harmful effects of PFAS it was releasing into West Virginia communities' groundwater. Latiano married...
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    considering addressing PFAS as a class rather than as individual substances or in smaller groups. A report to conclude that PFAS as a class are harmful...
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    production of PFA, a type of perfluorinated". NC Policy Watch. The Pulse. Retrieved 7 September 2022. Perkins, Tom (18 December 2021). "PFAS 'forever chemicals'...
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    lipstick (62%). As many as 13 types of individual PFAS compounds were found in each product. Since PFAS compounds are highly mobile, they are readily absorbed...
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  • #Awards #ToY #players #pfas" (Tweet). Retrieved 17 May 2021 – via Twitter. Pirie, Mark (17 May 2021). "Rangers dominate the PFA Premiership Team of the...
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    products. The Cottage Grove facility manufactured PFAS from the 1940s to 2002. In response to PFAS contamination of the Mississippi River and surrounding...
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    human health. While the French government had held a report on the extent of PFAS contamination in France for several months, Thierry requested in March 2023...
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    blood of US consumers. PFAS are also found in paper mill residuals, digestates, composts, and soils. Given the ubiquity of PFAS, and the comparative background...
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