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Study Finds TFA in Juices and Wine in Canada
A new technical note by North American scientists reported using advanced detection technology to find trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a byproduct of common f-gases and other substances, in 24 beverage samples from Toronto, Ontario, including juices and wine, at microgram-per-liter levels similar to those of previous studies done in Europe.The study also found other ultrashort- and short-chain PFAS (per- and polyfluorinated substances), though TFA “dominated in detection frequency and concentration,” it said, adding, “TFA concentrations were at least an order of magnitude higher than the sum of…
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