Degradation of fluorotelomer alcohols: a likely atmospheric source of perfluorinated carboxylic acids

DA Ellis, JW Martin, AO De Silva…

Index: Environmental Science and Technology, , vol. 38, # 12 p. 3316 - 3321

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Abstract

... Environmental Science & Technology. ... is only slowly eliminated in mammals (8), is potentially toxic (9−11), has no known metabolic or environmental degrada tion ... The source of most PFCAs observed in the environment is unclear (1). There are no known natural sources of long ...