{"id":661666,"date":"2020-07-22T13:45:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T17:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=661666"},"modified":"2020-07-22T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T17:45:28","slug":"novel-pfas-comprise-24-of-those-measured-in-blood-of-wilmington-north-carolina-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=661666","title":{"rendered":"Novel PFAS comprise 24% of those measured in blood of Wilmington, North Carolina residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a new paper detailing findings from North Carolina State University&#8217;s GenX Exposure Study, researchers detected novel per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) called &#8216;fluoroethers&#8217; in blood from residents of Wilmington, North Carolina. The fluoroethers\u2014Nafion byproduct 2, PFO4DA and PFO5DoA\u2014represented 24% of the total PFAS detected in the blood of Wilmington residents and appear to leave the body faster than legacy PFAS. These are the first measurements of these chemicals in humans.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-07-pfas-comprise-blood-wilmington-north.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Novel PFAS comprise 24% of those measured in blood of Wilmington, North Carolina residents<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new paper detailing findings from North Carolina State University&#8217;s GenX Exposure Study, researchers detected novel per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) called &#8216;fluoroethers&#8217; in blood from residents of Wilmington,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}