How to Use PFOS in a Sentence

PFOS

abbreviation or noun

• What Hansen wanted to know was how PFOS was making its way into animals.
  — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 20 May 2024
• Johnson had been Hansen’s first boss and had instigated her research into PFOS.
  — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 20 May 2024
• Shortly thereafter, one of his experiments revealed that PFOS was binding to proteins in the body, causing the chemical to accumulate over time.
  — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 20 May 2024
• In one early experiment, conducted in the late ’70s, a group of 3M scientists fed PFOS to rats on a daily basis.
  — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 20 May 2024
• The levels are well below Pennsylvania’s limits of 14 ppt for PFOA and 18 ppt for PFOS.
  — Christine Kirchhoff, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
• This isn’t surprising to me, as short-chain PFAS are known to absorb more efficiently into plants than long-chain PFAS like PFOS.
  — Sarah Todd, STAT, 1 May 2026
• Levels of forever chemicals Two forever chemicals, PFOA and PFOS, deserve attention first.
  — Christine Kirchhoff, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
• Previous research by the same team indicated that elevated levels of PFOA and PFOS also were connected to other childhood cancers, including acute myeloid leukemia and Wilms tumor.
  — Rachel Fobar, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
• The borough of Emmaus, which is home to about 12,000 people just outside Allentown, Pennsylvania, reported several wells over EPA limits – most notably at its waterworks building, where PFOS averaged 32 times over the limit.
  — Austin Fast, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025