E.P.A. Orders Companies to Examine Effects of Chemicals. Scientists are raising concerns about the potential health and environmental effects of an important family of industrial chemicals. By Jennifer 8. Lee. [New York Times: Science]
The perfluorinated acids are challenging traditional presumptions of how chemicals can move and behave, both in the environment and in organisms.
"It's nonvolatile. It's not soluble. How does it get to these remote locations?"
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