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Substance Infocard
IC
perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts and PFOA-related substances
EC / List no.: -
CAS no.: -
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Regulatory context
Here you can find all of the regulations and regulatory lists in which this substance appears, according to the data available to ECHA. This substance has been found in the following regulatory activities (directly, or inheriting the regulatory context of a parent substance):
REACH - Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals Regulation
- PACT - Public activities Co-ordination ToolPublic (risk management) activities co-ordination tableTool showing an overview of substances in various key regulatory processes that authorities are working on.
- Substances intended to be restricted and entered in Annex XVII to REACH.
- REACH Annex XVII. Substances for which certain uses are Restricted under REACH at EU level.
POPs - Persistent Organic Pollutants Regulations
- Substances whose production and use are banned or severely restricted under the POPs Regulation and/or which are subject to release reduction provisions under the POPs Regulation.
- Proposals for new substances to be listed under the Stockholm Convention, and once agreed, to become subject to the POPs Regulation.

Substance names and other identifiers
Regulatory process names
perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts and PFOA-related substances
Other
Perfluorooctanoic acid and its salts
Any related substance (including its salts and polymers) having a linear or branched perfluoroheptyl group with the formula C7F15- directly attached to another carbon atom, as one of the structural elements. Any related substance (including its salts and polymers) having a linear or branched perfluorooctyl group with the formula C8F17- as one of the structural elements. The following substances are excluded from this designation: — C8F17-X, where X = F, Cl, Br. — C8F17-C(=O)OH, C8F17-C(=O)O-X′ or C8F17-CF2-X′ (where X′ = any group, including salts).
Other

Group members
This entry / group of substance has the following member substances:
Name | EC / List no. | CAS no. | Association |
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Pentadecafluorooctanoic acid | 206-397-9 | 335-67-1 | Official source |

Group parents
This substance has been identified as member of the following groups of substances:
Name | EC / List no. | CAS no. | Association |
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Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts and PFOA-related substances; C9-C14 perfluorocarboxylic acids (C9-C14 PFCA), their salts and C9-C14 PFCA-related substances | - | - | Expert judgement |
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