Meaningful take-aways regarding PFAS toxicity – What do the data say?

Campe, Lisa

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Meaningful take-aways regarding PFAS toxicity – What do the data say?

Author(s)

Campe, Lisa

Issue Date

2024-04-25

Keyword(s)

• PFAS
• per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances

Abstract

The publicized, often alarmist sound bites of information on PFAS toxicity that we read or hear about almost daily only tell a portion of the PFAS story and are frequently hyperbolic, and even misinformed rather than educational. A multitude of studies has been done in the last few years on the toxicity of various PFAS, although the focus has been largely on PFOA and PFOS, and the results of these studies are not uniformly consistent and not always directly relevant to the average population. To that end, we have prepared an in-depth exploration of the basis of the current USEPA toxicity values and health advisories for select PFAS, as well as summarized salient data from key epidemiological studies. This presentation will include key aspects of select studies that evaluated health outcomes for workers or heavily exposed populations relative to expected or control incidence rates, as well as effects in people living in areas with PFAS-impacted water supplies versus those in control/unimpacted areas. Select studies that will be discussed include the C8 Health Study (2008), the Australian National University PFAS Health Study (2021), PFAS and cancer, a Scoping Review of Epidemiological Evidence (Steenland and Winquist, Environmental Research, March 2021).

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