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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chemosphere. 2017 Jun 9;184:687–693. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.06.023

Table 1.

Levels of PFAAs in serum from 37 young adults.

Serum (ng/mL), n=37
Congener MDL % Detect GM Range
Perfluoropentanoic acid (PFPeA)
0.18 0 NA NA
Perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA)
0.03 83.8 0.14 ND-1.00
Perfluoroheptanoic acid (PFHpA)
0.07 32.4 NA ND-0.30
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)
0.06 100 1.57 0.30–4.07
Perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA)
0.02 100 0.67 0.23–4.02
Perfluorodecanoic acid (PFDA)
0.04 97.3 0.28 ND-1.60
Perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHxS)
0.05 100 3.12 1.07–12.55
Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) 0.06 100 4.96 0.39–31.35

Abbreviations: % Detect, percent detectable. NA, not available, ND, not detected.