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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 20.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Total Environ. 2020 Jun 6;740:140017. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140017

Table 3.

PFAS concentrations in soil metadata for secondary-source contaminated sites

Date First author Location Max PFOA Conc Max PFOS Conc Source
ug/kg ug/kg
2007/2019 Davis/Zhu U.S. 470 - adjacent to PFAS manufacturing plant
2008 Wilhelm Germany 910 5,500 land application of industrial-waste derived amendment
2010 Wang China 34 189 adjacent to PFAS manufacuring plant
2010 Washington U.S. 2,531 1,409 land application of PFAS industrial waste-impacted municipal biosolids
2011 Sepulvado U.S. 38 483 land application of municipal biosolids
2017 Gottschall Canada 0.8 0.4 land application of municipal biosolids
2017 MEDEP U.S. 23.6 878 land application of paper-mill residuals and municipal biosolids
2017 Braunig Australia 7 1,692 use of contaminated groundwater for irrigation
2017 Liu China 623 7 use of contaminated surface water for irrigation
Overall median 38 680.5