Levels and trends of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in the Arctic environment – An update

• Published in: Emerging Contaminants
• Main Authors: Muir, Derek, Bossi, Rossana, Carlsson, Pernilla, Evans, Marlene, De Silva, A, Halsall, Crispin, Rauert, Cassandra, Herzke, Dorte, Hung, Hayley, Letcher, Robert, Riget, Frank, Roos, Anna
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Svalbard; Greenland; Devon Ice Cap; East Greenland; glacier; Ice cap; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2620701; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emcon.2019.06.002

Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are important environmental contaminants globally and in the early 2000s they were shown to be ubiquitous contaminants in Arctic wildlife. Previous reviews by Butt et al. and Letcher et al. have covered studies on levels and trends of PFASs in the Arctic t...