PFOAs & The Environment (Perfluorooctanoic acids)

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	PFOAs & The Environment (Perfluorooctanoic acids)

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10-19-2007 7:05 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/72447895-aa10-4515-8d72-4581945b6e1d/7878ADD1-761C-4E73-95CC-00DC45BA4FA9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perfluorooctanoic_acid&oldid=163976668" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perfluorooctanoic_acid&oldid=163976668" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perfluorooctanoic_acid&oldid=163976668"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/C6C120B4-E7C8-45D9-8233-7B3772FCE2F5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perfluorooctanoic_acid&oldid=163976668">PFOA - pentadecafluorooctanoic acid is an industrial surfactant</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perfluorooctanoic_acid&oldid=163976668">most widely recognized under the brand name <A title="Teflon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teflon">Teflon</A> by <A title="DuPont" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont">DuPont</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perfluorooctanoic_acid&oldid=163976668">commonly used in many household surface finishes and indirect contact applications in flexible <A title="Food packaging" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_packaging">food packaging</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perfluorooctanoic_acid&oldid=163976668">also in the fabrication of water- and stain-resistant clothes and other materials, including the products <A title="StainMaster" class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=StainMaster&action=edit">StainMaster</A>, and <A title="Gore-Tex" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore-Tex">Gore-Tex</A>. (3M <A title="Scotchgard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotchgard">Scotchgard</A>™ complied with a voluntary phase out of PFOS, a competing technology to the Zonyl trade name).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perfluorooctanoic_acid&oldid=163976668">The durability of PFOA prevents it from breaking down once in the <A title="Ecosystem" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem">environment</A>, leading to widespread buildup and <A title="Bioaccumulation" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioaccumulation">bioaccumulation</A> in <A title="Food chain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_chain">food chains</A>. Traces of PFOA-family chemicals can now be found in the <A title="Blood" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood">blood</A> of nearly all Americans and in the environment worldwide.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perfluorooctanoic_acid&oldid=163976668"><P>On <A title="February 15" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15">February 15</A>, 2006, the EPA's Science Advisory Board voted to approve a recommendation that PFOA should be considered a likely <A title="Carcinogen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinogen">carcinogen</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7878ADD1-761C-4E73-95CC-00DC45BA4FA9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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