The thousands of similar carbon fluorine compounds that together constitute PFAS can take centuries to break down in the ...

Fluorine compounds fall into two broad categories: organic and inorganic. Both categories have a wide range of industrial uses. Organic fluorides are compounds where fluorine is bound to carbon ...

but it can also render organic compounds highly toxic or pollutants. Fluorine's name derives from fluorspar — or fluorite, CaF 2 (pictured) — which in earlier times was used as a flux to ...

From the bloodstreams of office workers in the world’s most developed countries to the organs of Amazonian hunter-gatherers, ...

Now, thanks to surrogate methods that allow us to indirectly measure total PFAS concentrations, we know that there are thousands of organic fluorine compounds that are not being captured by the ...

The Environment Ministry has given water utility companies until the end of September to report back on organic fluorine compounds in tap water that pose a hazard to a human health. An expert ...

An internationally renowned leader in children’s environmental health says people are right worry about PFAS “forever chemicals." ...

The central government will discuss strengthening measures against cancer-causing organic fluorine compounds that have been detected around factories and U.S. military bases. It will consider ...