Table 2.
Component | Description | PFOS | PFOA | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
Soil | Includes agricultural, background and secondary-source contaminated soils | 3–5,500,000 ng/kg | 10–2,531,000 ng/kg | [38,91] |
Water | Rainwater and groundwater used for irrigation and or livestock | 0.073–113 ng/L | 23–2752 ng/L | [89,91,92] |
Milk | Includes raw, retail and full-cream milk | n.d.–9060 ng/L | n.d.–151.8 ng/L | [88,89,93,94,95] |
Meat | Beef Muscle Beef Liver |
21–2700 ng/kg 24–91,000 ng/kg |
7–500 ng/kg 9–114,000 ng/kg |
[89,96] [89,96,97] |
Crops | Cereal grains (silage, wheat, barely, maize) | 3.9–860 ng/kg | 8.3–39,300 ng/kg | [89,91] |