The research team, consisting of Hokkaido University's Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Medical University of Hokkaido, and Shizuoka University, has been selected as a new project for FY2024 under the Ministry of the Environment's "Comprehensive Research on PFAS," titled "Comprehensive elucidation of the health effects of PFAS taking into account toxic effects, mechanisms of toxic expression, and species differences: an integrated environmental epidemiology-toxicology research project."

This study, which will begin in June 2024, will combine two different approaches: an environmental epidemiological survey based on the Hokkaido Study, a birth cohort of approximately 20,000 people in Hokkaido that has been ongoing since 2002, and toxicological research using cultured cells, to evaluate the health risks of PFAS (fluorinated organic compounds), whose health effects have recently attracted increasing social attention. It is expected that from among the multiple PFASs, PFAS compounds (groups) that should be given priority consideration in the formulation of regulations and guidelines will be proposed, and that these will be utilized in environmental policies.

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