The same "nastiness" makes these compounds essentially non-toxic, too. Since nothing less reactive than oxygen radicals seems to attack C-F bonds, these compou

The same "nastiness" makes these compounds essentially non-toxic, too. Since nothing less reactive than oxygen radicals seems to attack C-F bonds, these compounds just sit there doing nothing. Which is what the report's summary says: they found the more common compounds everywhere, but they just sit there. (The summary(!) has awfully low information density, I am not going to look at the full report.)