{"id":11208,"date":"2019-02-26T18:17:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T23:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/?p=11208"},"modified":"2022-08-15T15:12:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T19:12:58","slug":"the-elephant-in-the-room-potential-biopersistence-of-short-chain-pfas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/the-elephant-in-the-room-potential-biopersistence-of-short-chain-pfas\/","title":{"rendered":"The elephant in the room: potential biopersistence of short-chain PFAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11211\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/EDF-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/EDF-blog.jpg 240w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/EDF-blog-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/EDF-blog-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>Concern over human and environmental health impacts of longer-chain PFAS (like PFOS and PFOA) has resulted in companies phasing out these compounds, but companies are simply replacing them with shorter-chain PFAS. The health impacts of shorter-chain PFAS are less studied than other PFAS and significant data gaps remain. Yet, in absence of clear evidence that these shorter-chain PFAS have negative health impacts, the FDA is approving them for use in products that come in contact with food.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the details in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/2019\/02\/20\/potential-biopersistence-short-chain-pfas\/\">blog post by the Environmental Defense fund<\/a> that does not shy away from describing the chemistry of different PFAS compounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concern over human and environmental health impacts of longer-chain PFAS (like PFOS and PFOA) has resulted in companies phasing out these compounds, but companies are simply replacing them with shorter-chain PFAS. The health impacts of shorter-chain PFAS are less studied than other PFAS and significant data gaps remain. Yet, in absence of clear evidence that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002,"featured_media":11211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pfas-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16825,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions\/16825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}