Ian Cousins
@IanTCousins
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Professor @AcesSthlmUni @Stockholm_Uni Environmental Chemist who tweets about research, job postings, and more... Assoc. Ed. @EnvSciTech & Environmental Au
Stockholm, Sweden
Joined August 2015
Very pleased to announce the publication of 'An Overview of Potential Alternatives for the Multiple Uses of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances' in @EnvSciTech. The work was led by @R_Figuiere with important contributions by Luc Mias and Eleni Savvidou.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are used in a wide range of different industrial and consumer applications. However, due to their extreme environmental persistence and their impacts on...
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RT @AcesSthlmUni: @DefraGovUK has responded to a coalition of scientists, including Prof. @IanTCousins, calling for stricter regulation of….
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RT @EnvSciTech: .@IanTCousins and @JonBenskin from @AcesSthlmUni @Stockholm_Uni developed and validated a solid-phase extraction procedure….
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RT @EnvSciTech: In this ES&T perspective, @Stockholm_Uni @AcesSthlmUni suggests that successful substitution of #PFAS requires balancing #b….
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RT @RachSalv: BREAKING! MP @munirawilson has just introduced a PFAS forever chemical bill that would set out legal limits for toxic PFAS in….
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RT @hanspeterarp: #TFA is a global threat. In @EnvSciTech we argue that its unprecedent rise to be the most dominant #PFAS in water, blood….
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Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) is a persistent and mobile substance that has been increasing in concentration within diverse environmental media, including rain, soils, human serum, plants, plant-based...
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In a new paper in @EnvSciTech we voice our concerns about the increasing global concentrations TFA. We should control emissions of TFA going forward because if do exceed some known (or unknown) effects threshold in the future we cannot reverse the problem.
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Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) is a persistent and mobile substance that has been increasing in concentration within diverse environmental media, including rain, soils, human serum, plants, plant-based...
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RT @AcesSthlmUni: ". I find it deeply disturbing that the UK continues to trail behind the rest of Europe in addressing the PFAS crisis"….
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RT @m_agerstrand: PFAS have contaminated every corner of the planet, and been found in people, drinking water, animals, and food ⚠️. I’m p….
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More than 50 scientists have written to ministers calling for tougher regulation of a group of substances known as PFAS.
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RT @DrAlexFord: Today, I joined over 50 scientific experts to ask the UK Government to take a more ambitious approach to regulating #PFAS -….
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More than 50 scientists have written to ministers calling for tougher regulation of a group of substances known as PFAS.
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RT @MattMacL: Calling recent PHD grads and those close to defending. We are hiring a Post-doc with an "open research focus". Write your….
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RT @ZeroPM_H2020: Thousands of environmental pollutants are being spread in the environment through water. The cleanup task is immense. At….
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RT @hanspeterarp: We are all in the same boat because we all have to drink from the same water. Therefore, we must solve this challenge of….
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RT @EnvSciTech: This ES&T perspective proposes a three-step workflow that could be implemented to assess compliance testing of emerging int….
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RT @ZeroPM_H2020: How to ensure that products in the future will be compliant with the proposed, broad #PFAS restriction under REACH? . T….
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RT @PERFORCE3_ITN: Check out the latest @PERFORCE3_ITN research by Dudášová et al just published in @AnalBioanalChem! "An automated and hig….
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Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry - The increasing recognition of the health impacts from human exposure to per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) has surged the need for...
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RT @examinationnews: As global demand for electric vehicles rises, so does a hidden risk. Some major chemical suppliers behind lithium-ion….
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RT @PERFORCE3_ITN: New @PERFORCE3_ITN paper just published in Archives of Toxicology entitled "In vitro screening of understudied PFAS with….
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Archives of Toxicology - Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are man-made chemicals used in many industrial applications. Exposure to PFAS is associated with several health risks, including...
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RT @LaraCioni: The last paper of my PhD thesis is now published @EnvSciTech 🎉 We applied a combination of analytical techniques to select k….
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A growing number of studies have reported that routinely monitored per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are not sufficient to explain the extractable organic fluorine (EOF) measured in human...
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