Elucidating PFAS bioaccumulation mechanisms in fish for developing a novel biomimicking approach

The major objective of this proposal is to develop an improved understanding of the organisms and organism compartments that most strongly accumulate PFAS mass, to develop and sequentially address the primary SERDP SON fundamental models that better estimate PFAS distributions between environmental and organism (fish tissue) phases of PFAS found in legacy and modern fluorotelomer-based aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF).