Addressing Urgent Questions for PFAS in the 21st Century
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F21%3A00122980" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/21:00122980 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c03386" target="_blank" >https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c03386</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c03386" target="_blank" >10.1021/acs.est.1c03386</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Addressing Urgent Questions for PFAS in the 21st Century
Original language description
Despite decades of research on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), fundamental obstacles remain to addressing worldwide contamination by these chemicals and their associated impacts on environmental quality and health. Here, we propose six urgent questions relevant to science, technology, and policy that must be tackled to address the "PFAS problem": (1) What are the global production volumes of PFAS, and where are PFAS used? (2) Where are the unknown PFAS hotspots in the environment? (3) How can we make measuring PFAS globally accessible? (4) How can we safely manage PFAScontaining waste? (5) How do we understand and describe the health effects of PFAS exposure? (6) Who pays the costs of PFAS contamination? The importance of each question and barriers to progress are briefly described, and several potential paths forward are proposed. Given the diversity of PFAS and their uses, the extreme persistence of most PFAS, the striking ongoing lack of fundamental information, and the inequity of the health and environmental impacts from PFAS contamination, there is a need for scientific and regulatory communities to work together, with cooperation from PFAS-related industries, to fill in critical data gaps and protect human health and the environment.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Environmental Science & Technology
ISSN
0013-936X
e-ISSN
1520-5851
Volume of the periodical
55
Issue of the periodical within the volume
19
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
12755-12765
UT code for WoS article
000705995700002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85116023046