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. 2022 Jul 26;130(7):077005. doi: 10.1289/EHP10009

Table 4.

External dose, modeled TWA (time-weighted average) serum concentration, and modeled and reported concentrations at the end of the study for each of the doses in subchronic repeated-dose toxicity studies for male rats specifically.

Substance Reference External dose (mg/kg body weight/d) Modeled TWA (mg/mL) Concentration at end of the study (mg/mL)
Modeled Reported mean Ratio
PFBS Lieder et al.86 30 0.016 0.0018
100 0.053 0.0059
300 0.16 0.018
1,000 3.7 0.059
PFHxS Butenhoff et al.87 0.3 0.024 0.042 0.044 1.0
1 0.080 0.14 0.089 1.6
3 0.24 0.42 0.13 3.2
10 0.80 1.4 0.20 7.0
PFOS Seacat et al.88 0.03 0.0015 0.0025 0.0040 0.6
0.13 0.0065 0.011 0.017 0.6
0.34 0.017 0.029 0.044 0.7
1.33 0.066 0.11 0.15 0.7
PFBA Butenhoff et al.89 1.2 0.0028 0.0012 0.0061 0.2
6 0.014 0.0061 0.014 0.4
30 0.071 0.030 0.052 0.6
PFHxA Loveless et al.90 20 0.0017 0.00032
100 0.0083 0.0016
500 0.041 0.0081
PFOA Perkins et al.91 0.06 0.0047 0.0059 0.0071 0.8
0.64 0.050 0.062 0.041 1.5
1.94 0.15 0.19 0.070 2.7
6.5 0.51 0.63 0.14 4.5
PFNA Mertens et al.92 0.025 0.0044 0.010
0.125 0.022 0.051
0.6 0.11 0.25
PFDoDA Kato et al.93 0.1 0.0019 0.0049
0.5 0.0096 0.024
2.5 0.048 0.12
HFPO-DA Haas94 0.1 0.000051 0.000069
10 0.0051 0.00069
100 0.051 0.0069

Note: —, no data; HFPO-DA, hexafluoropropylene oxide-dimer acid; PFBA, perfluorobutanoic acid; PFBS, perfluorobutane sulfonic acid; PFDoDA, perfluorododecanoic acid; PFHxA, perfluorohexanoic acid; PFHxS, perfluorohexane sulfonic acid; PFNA, perfluorononanoic acid; PFOA, perfluorooctanoic acid; PFOS, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid.