Perspectives on the inclusion of perfluorooctane sulfonate into the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic PollutantsShow others and affiliations
2009 (English)In: Environmental Science and Technology, ISSN 0013-936X, E-ISSN 1520-5851, Vol. 43, no 14, p. 5171-5175Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Chemical Society (ACS) , 2009. Vol. 43, no 14, p. 5171-5175
Keywords [en]
Alkanesulfonic Acids, Animals, Congresses as Topic, Environmental Pollutants, Fluorocarbons, Government Regulation, Humans, International Cooperation, Molecular Structure, Risk Assessment
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Environmental Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-193836DOI: 10.1021/es900464aISI: 000268138000004PubMedID: 19708337Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-67650446558OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-193836DiVA, id: diva2:1757372
Note
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Editor’s Note: This manuscript was accepted for publication on April 24, 2009. On May 9, 2009, the Conference of the Parties 4 of the Stockholm Convention (COP-4) in Geneva placed perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride (PFOS and PFOSF) in Annex B (see below for other included substances). Due to our production timelines, it was impossible to have this article appear prior to the COP-4 meeting (began May 4, 2009). Therefore the conditional/future tensing within this article, now made moot by the COP-4 decision, has been edited into parentheses. Much of this paper describes the toxicological considerations of PFOS/PFOSF that led to its inclusion. Taking the information in this Viewpoint article, readers may wish to consider the placement of PFOS/PFOSF as argued by the authors. According to the press release of the (COP-4) May 9, 2009 resolution (http://chm.pops.int/Convention/Pressrelease/COP4Geneva9May2009/tabid/542/language/en-US/Default.aspx), the compounds listed in this paper were assigned as follows: PFOS, its salts, and PFOSF - Annex B, pentabromodiphenyl ether - Annex A, hexabromobiphenyl - Annex A, chlordecone - Annex A, pentachlorobenzene - Annex A and Annex C, lindane - Annex A, α- and β-hexachlorocyclohexane - Annex A.
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