Perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA): No high-level accumulation in human lung and kidney tissue
Perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA): No high-level accumulation in human lung and kidney tissue
To verify the results of high PFBA tissue accumulation in humans, we have analyzed PFBA in a set of 7 lung and 9 kidney samples from tumor patients with a different method of quantification, using high-resolution mass spectrometry with the accurate mass as analytical parameter. In the light of our results and considering the analytical problems with the short-chain compound PFBA exhibiting only one mass fragmentation, it appears to be likely that PFBA is not accumulating on a high level in human lung and kidney tissue.
The article was published in the "International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health".
Perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA): No high-level accumulation in human lung and kidney tissue
Klaus Abraham, Ahmed H. El-Khatib, Tanja Schwerdtle, Bernhard H. Monien
International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
237 (2021) 113830
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2021.113830