UF Environmental Engineering – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu Building business on innovation Tue, 12 Aug 2025 04:12:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/favicon-blue_1.png UF Environmental Engineering – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu 32 32 UF Researchers to Study PFAS’ Effect on Humans https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/uf-researchers-to-study-pfas-effect-on-humans/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://scaddev1.com/uf-researchers-to-study-pfas-effect-on-humans/ While many Americans aren’t familiar with PFAS, this group of manufactured chemicals not only surrounds us but can be found in nearly everyone’s blood, a risk federal regulators want to understand better.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced that studying these chemicals, called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, is one of its main commitments. And a researcher from the University of Florida was chosen to head one of the efforts to understand the synthetic chemical’s impact.

Timothy Townsend, Ph.D., a UF environmental engineering professor, is spearheading a 3-year project to study what happens when PFAS enters a solid waste stream and a landfill.

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