FLUORINATED POPS TOXICOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS IN AVIAN SPECIES

Perfluorinated chemicals have been widely used in commerce for the last few decades. Until recently little was known about their environmental fate and even less was known about their potential environmental effects. Since Giesy and co-workers 1 first demonstrated the widespread occurrence of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) in wildlife there has been renewed interest i