EDCtox

Mechanistic evidence atlas. Scores summarise biological direction and magnitude. They are not a toxicity rank or a human-risk number.

Compounds

TFA

Trifluoroacetic acid

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Category
industrial chemical · Ultra-short-chain fluorinated acid
Record
specific compound · unknown
Identifiers
CAS 76-05-1 · C2HF3O2
Aliases
Trifluoroacetic acid

Highly persistent fluorinated acid and a terminal degradation product of some fluorinated substances. This seed does not treat TFA as a classical estrogenic compound.

Flags: environmental chemical

Phase-1 numbers are seed hypotheses. They are not curated consensus, not a toxicity total, and not a statement of human risk. Association is not written as causation.

HIGH · insufficient human evidence · NEUROENDO

Thyroid developmental concern is not established human causation, and TFA is not a classical estrogen.

Suggested research: Human studies of thyroid hormones and neurodevelopment at measured TFA exposure.