The Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study ( or CHEERS ) was a study conducted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency designed to examine how children may be exposed to pesticides and other chemicals used in U. S. households, such as phthalates, brominated flame retardants, and perfluorinated compounds ( PFOS, PFOA, PFNA, and others ).

For example, PFOS is a persistent organic pollutant as judged by the Stockholm Convention.

Some fish consumption guideline restrictions have been placed on the lake's bluegill, bullhead, crappie, largemouth bass, northern pike, and walleye due to mercury and / or PFOS contamination.

The implications of PFCs being poorly eliminating from the body remains unknown due to limited human data on acute and chronic toxicity of PFOS and PFOA.

Some fish consumption guideline restrictions have been placed on the lake's bluegill, crappie, largemouth bass, northern pike, walleye, and white sucker due to mercury and / or PFOS contamination.

Some fish consumption guideline restrictions have been placed on the lake's bluegill, carp, crappie, largemouth bass, northern pike, walleye, white sucker, and yellow perch due to mercury and / or PFOS contamination.

Some fish consumption guideline restrictions have been placed on the lake's bluegill, carp, crappie, largemouth bass, northern pike, walleye, white sucker, and yellow perch due to mercury and / or PFOS contamination.

Some fish consumption guideline restrictions have been placed on the lake's bluegill, carp, crappie, largemouth bass, northern pike, and walleye due to mercury and / or PFOS contamination.

PFOS affects the immune system of male mice at a concentration of 91. 5 ppb, while PFOS has been reported in bottlenose dolphins in excess of 1 ppm.

The fluorocarbon, PFOA and PFOS have both been subject for numerous investigations by the EU and the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) regarding them being harmful to the environment.

Traces of PFOS spilt later entered the island's water supply although quantities were not high enough to make it unsafe to drink.

Examples of harmful fluorocarbons include PFOA ( perfluorooctanoic acid ) and PFOS ( perfluorooctane sulfonate ), frequently present in water resistant textiles and sprays conferring water resistant properties to textiles.

The man-made chemical perfluorooctanesulfonic acid ( PFOS ) may be compromising the immune system of bottlenose dolphins.

The German Federal Environmental Agency issued guidelines for the sum of PFOA and PFOS concentrations in drinking water: 0. 1 parts per billion for precaution and 0. 3 parts per billion for a threshold.

Perfluorooctanoic acid ( PFOA ) and perfluorooctane sulfonate ( PFOS ) are the most common PFCs found in ski wax.

The general population is known to have background levels of PFOA and PFOS in their body.

The source of PFOA and PFOS exposure is not clearly understood but smoke inhalation from ski wax appears to be the common route of exposure for ski waxers.

PFOS + PFOA Toxicological Overview.

Bull, S. " PFOS + PFOA Toxicological Overview.

The fluorine atom is pervasive in drugs, e. g. Prozac, and many other substances such as freon, Teflon, and blood serum ( PFOS, PFOA, and PFNA ).

In 2002, an overturned firetruck discharged PFOS fire retardant onto the airport apron and surrounding soil.

After complimenting Morgan and the riflemen and saying he was praising them to Congress, too, the ardent Frenchman added he felt that Congress should make some financial restitution to the widow and family of Morris, but that he knew Morgan realized how long such action usually required, if it was done at all.

This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too.

He invited Mr. Case to stop by to say hello if he ever visited the academy and then added that he was on the managerial staff of the freshman football team

Other brothers later joined them for instruction with Oldenburg, the wigmaker, and also arithmetic was added to Bible reading, German, and Danish in the informal curriculum.

Their house was a centuries-old Colonial which they had had restored ( guided by an eminent architect ) and updated, and added on to.

Purified inactive chlorine was then added from one of the tubes described above and the mixture frozen out and sealed off in a flask equipped with a break seal.

Carrier Af was added and the aqueous and organic phases were separated ( cells containing gaseous reactants were immersed in liquid air before opening under sodium iodide ).

One drop of each sample was added to one drop of a 2% suspension of group Af or group B red cells in a small Af test tube.

The cells were washed three times with saline, anti-human serum was added, the cells were resuspended, and the mixture was centrifuged at 1000 rpm for 1 min and examined for agglutination.

The major contributor was a shopping center with houses being added to the system as the subdivision developed.

The mercenaries were little interested in farming and added nothing to the output of the farm plots on which all work was still done with hoes as late as 1818.

For sprains and swellings, one pint of cider vinegar and half a pint of spirits of turpentine added to three well beaten eggs was said to give speedy relief.

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.

That, he added, was when he was `` a very young man, a machinist and toolmaker by trade.

South Philadelphia High's principal added that the current delay was caused by the `` pressure '' of a movie that the toneless lad was making.

What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after all, a very oily character.

But for all the manifest intention to `` show off '', this was a circus with a difference, for instead of descending in quality to what is known as a popular level, it added further to the evidence that this is a very great dancing company.

She asked him and, laughing, she added, `` I was nervous about buying a book with a title like that, but I knew you'd like it ''.

She convinced him that he ought to be a member of some of the small tea-drinking parties she held at her rooms and in the end he complied with her wishes, although it was only rarely that he added anything to the random conversations.