AMAP Assessment 2016: Chemicals of Emerging Arctic Concern

• Main Authors: Muir D., Bossi R., Carlsson P., Corsolini S., Desforges J. P., Diamond M., Evans M.
• Other Authors: Martin Forsius, Sarah Kalhok Bourque, Morten Olsen, Outi Mähönen, Helgi Jensson, Marianne Kroglund, Tove Lundberg,Yuri Tsaturov, Mike Kuperberg, Eva Krümmel, Jannie Staffansson, Muir, D., Bossi, R., Carlsson, P., Corsolini, S., Desforges, J. P., Diamond, M., Evans, M.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; AMAP
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11365/1090163

Butt et al. (2010) reviewed information available for per- and polyfl uoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in the Arctic and Letcher et al. (2010) reviewed PFAS exposure in wildlife and fi sh, both as part of a previous AMAP assessment. Th is review therefore focuses mainly on data published between about 2009 and early 2015 and on replacement PFASs of emerging concern such as perfl uorocarboxylates (PFCAs) and short-chain perfl uoroalkyl sulfonates (PFSAs) and their precursors (Table 2.1). Table 2.2 summarizes the detection of PFASs in Arctic environmental media. It includes all reports to date, i.e. data summarized in previous reviews (Butt et al., 2010) as well as more recent published and unpublished results. Each environmental compartment is discussed separately in the relevant parts of this section.