but it can also render organic compounds highly toxic or pollutants. Fluorine's name derives from fluorspar — or fluorite, CaF 2 (pictured) — which in earlier times was used as a flux to ...

Some define “PFAS” as any chemical containing at least one fully fluorinated ... Because they are fluorinated substances, organofluorine compounds can fall within the extremely broad ...

Researchers found that chemicals, including PFAS, from pharmaceuticals are entering into wastewater — which can be used as drinking water during times of drought.

The researchers said that fluorinated pharmaceuticals should also be subject to regulation. They wrote: "We can't just focus on the handful of compounds we've studied extensively while ignoring ...

The plants’ inability to remove compounds known as organofluorines ... said that the fluorinated chemicals from pharmaceuticals aren’t fully metabolized and leave the body with waste.

The remainder consists largely of fluorinated pharmaceuticals and other compounds that aren't currently regulated. Using a national model that tracks how wastewater moves through U.S. waterways ...

Their findings suggest wastewater treatment plants across the US discharge tens of thousands of kilograms of fluorine-containing compounds into the environment each year, including a substantial ...