4 Topic Commentaries

PFAS Testing: Is a Storm Brewing?

PFAS Testing: Is a Storm Brewing?

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  Peter Jaffe, PhD

  Environmental engineering; PFAS fate/remediation

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  Princeton University

  The large number of PFAS compounds and the wide range of properties provide a unique challenge for conducting research on PFAS and regulating them.

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  Elsie M. Sunderland, PhD

  Environmental chemistry and exposure science

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  Harvard University

  These limitations in current analytical methods mean we are systematically underestimating exposures to these compounds. We need new tools to effectively detect current and emerging PFAS.

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  Emma Schymanski, PhD

  Analytical chemistry; non-target mass spectrometry

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  University of Luxembourg

  You can analyse a sample in 20 minutes — and do non-target data interpretation for a year.

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  Detlef R. U. Knappe, PhD

  Drinking water treatment and PFAS analysis

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  North Carolina State University

  With the development of analytical methods targeting ultrashort-chain PFAS, researchers have found these compounds to be the dominant PFAS in environmental matrices including water and human blood.

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