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. 2021 Nov 28;18(23):12550. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182312550

Table 2.

Examples of reported levels of PFOS and PFAS in individual components of ICLS.

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]