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Published online 21 March 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010322-6
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FOC: it's everywhere
Another class of chemicals may soon make the environmental blacklist.
A new class of compounds may have to be added to the list of recalcitrant pollutants that accumulate in the tissues of animals around the globe.
Using a highly sensitive new technique, researchers at Michigan State University have detected traces of a commercially produced polymer, perfluorooctane sulphonate (PFOS), in a surprisingly wide variety of wildlife -- from Arctic seals to Ganges river dolphins and Mississippi turtles1.
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