PMID- 17328178
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070405
LR  - 20190715
IS  - 0013-936X (Print)
IS  - 0013-936X (Linking)
VI  - 41
IP  - 3
DP  - 2007 Feb 1
TI  - Urban versus remote air concentrations of fluorotelomer alcohols and other 
      polyfluorinated alkyl substances in Germany.
PG  - 745-52
AB  - Neutral, volatile polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) were measured in 
      environmental air samples at two different sites in Northern Germany in spring 
      2005. The sampling locations were chosen to cover a metropolitan and a rural 
      site, the Hamburg city center, and Waldhof, a background monitoring site. An 
      optimized and validated analytical protocol was used to analyze two sets of 
      parallel high-volume air samples. For both sampling locations as well as for 
      individual samples, field blanks were taken to monitor possible background 
      contamination. Gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry using positive 
      chemical ionization (GC/ PCI-MS) was used for quantitative analyses. This article 
      describes the first air concentration data of volatile PFAS outside North America 
      reported in the peer-reviewed literature. The wide distribution of fluorotelomer 
      alcohols (FTOHs), fluorinated sulfonamides, and sulfonamidoethanols (FOSAs/FOSEs) 
      in German environmental air is presented. Furthermore, two volatile PFAS, i.e., 
      N-methyl fluorooctane sulfonamide (NMeFOSA) and 4:2 FTOH, were determined for the 
      first time in environmental air. Minimum-maximum sigmaFTOH concentrations of 
      64-311 pg/m3 (remote) up to 150-546 pg/m3 (urban) and minimum-maximum sigmaFOSA + 
      FOSE concentrations between 12 and 54 pg/m3 (remote) and 29 and 151 pg/m3 (urban) 
      were determined. 8:2 FTOH and 6:2 FTOH were found to be the predominant POPs 
      determined in Waldhof so far. Blank contamination was found to be negligible. A 
      significant correlation was found with the ambient temperature for the 
      partitioning of airborne FOSEs between the gaseous and particulate phase (R = 
      0.853), whereas FTOHs and FOSAs were almost exclusively found in the gaseous 
      phase. Furthermore, highest airborne PFAS concentrations were determined at 
      relatively high ambient temperatures. Correlation coefficients (R) for sigmaFTOH 
      and sigmaFOSA + FOSE concentrations with temperature were 0.954 and 0.968, 
      respectively. Finally, the PFAS concentrations determined in this study are set 
      into context with levels of "classical" persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in 
      the same region and PFAS data available for North America.
FAU - Jahnke, Annika
AU  - Jahnke A
AD  - GKSS Research Centre, Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute for 
      Coastal Research, Max-Planck-Str. 1, DE-21502 Geesthacht, Germany. 
      annika.jahnke@gkss.de
FAU - Ahrens, Lutz
AU  - Ahrens L
FAU - Ebinghaus, Ralf
AU  - Ebinghaus R
FAU - Temme, Christian
AU  - Temme C
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Environ Sci Technol
JT  - Environmental science & technology
JID - 0213155
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Fluorocarbon Polymers)
RN  - 0 (Fluorocarbons)
RN  - 0 (Sulfonamides)
SB  - IM
MH  - Air Pollutants/*analysis/chemistry
MH  - Cities
MH  - *Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Fluorocarbon Polymers/*analysis
MH  - Fluorocarbons/*analysis
MH  - Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
MH  - Germany
MH  - North America
MH  - Sulfonamides/*analysis
MH  - Volatilization
EDAT- 2007/03/03 09:00
MHDA- 2007/04/06 09:00
CRDT- 2007/03/03 09:00
PHST- 2007/03/03 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/04/06 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/03/03 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1021/es0619861 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Technol. 2007 Feb 1;41(3):745-52. doi: 10.1021/es0619861.