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Published in final edited form as: Sci Total Environ. 2020 Jun 6;740:140017. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140017

Table 1.

PFAS concentrations in soil metadata collected from soil survey studies.

Date First author Total PFAS Conca Number of PFAS Max PFOA Conc Max PFOS Conc Location
ug/kg ug/kg ug/kg
2010/2013 Naile 0.3 - 3.9 12 3.4 1.7 Korea
2010 Li 141 - 237 15 47.5 10.4 China
2010/2019 Wang/Gao 0.7 - 22 9 2 20 China
2011 Pan <0.3 - 9.4 9 0.5 2.4 China
2011 Wang 0.1 - 8.5 12 2.8 0.9 China
2011 Wang <0.1 - 1.7 12 0.5 0.7 China
2012 Wang 1.3 - 11 12 0.9 9.4 China
2012 Strynar <0.5 - 150 13 32 10 Multiple
2012 Llorca <0.1 - 5.8 18 1.5 5.4 Tierra Del Fuego & Antarctica
2013 Wang <0.1 - 1.8 22 0.3 0.4 China
2013 Meng <0.1 - 4.1 16 0.2 0.2 China
2014 Kim <0.05 - 1.6 2 0.7 0.9 Korea
2014 Tan <0.1 - 1.8 16 0.3 0.1 Nepal
2015 Xiao 6 - 135 2 28 126 United States
2014/2015 Shan/Jin 0.7 - 28.8 11 9 0.3 China
2015 Meng 0.04 - 3.6 13 2.3 1.9 China
2016 Chen 0.3 - 5 17 25 2 China
2016 Rankin 0.05 - 15 32 3.4 3.1 Multiple
2016 NH DES <0.5 - 71 12 33 59 United States
2016 Zhang 0.1 - 4 21 4.2 2.7 China
2017 Choi <0.05 - 3.6 2 1.8 2.7 Korea
2017 Liu 1.9 -126 12 123.6 2.7 China
2018 Meng 3 - 64 12 5 4.2 China
2018 Scher 1.3 - 30 7 3 12 United States
2018 Kikuchi <0.02 - 20 28 0.6 1.7 Sweden
2018 HWG <0.2 - 5.1 6 0.5 3.1 United States
2018 NEA 0.4 - 174 17 3.3 162 Norway
2018 Dalahmeh 1.7 - 7.9 26 0.9 3 Uganda
2018 Wang <0.001 - 0.01 2 0.01 0.003 China
2019 Zhu 0.5 - 35 17 4.9 9.7 United States
2019 Cao 0.6 - 5.1 17 2.7 0.1 China
2019 Groffen 0.8 - 53 15 3.7 37 Belgium
2019 Kim 0.1 - 13.9 17 2.1 0.7 Korea
2019 Li NR - 64.7 21 16.6 2.8 China
2019 Seo 2.5 - 8.8 19 0.3 1 Korea
2019 Skaar <0.05 - 7.1 14 0.01 7.1 Norway
2019 Zhang 4.2 - 49 12 23 1.2 China
Overall <0.001 - 237
maximum 123.6 162
minimum 0.01 0.003
median 2.7 2.7

Note: < means below quantitative detection limit

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