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Update on PFAS Analytical Methods
Citation:
Impellitteri, Christopher A., M. Mills, AND Andy Gillespie. Update on PFAS Analytical Methods. Emerging Contaminants Summit, Westminster, Colorado, March 10 - 11, 2020.
Impact/Purpose:
The Emerging Contaminants Summit is the only one that comprehensively addresses mitigating the presence of these contaminants across all environmental media including surface water, groundwater, drinking water, wastewater, recycled water, soils and sediments
Description:
A class of man-made chemicals Chains of carbon (C) atoms surrounded by fluorine (F) atoms, with different terminal ends Complicated chemistry – thousands of different variations exist in commerce Widely used in industrial processes and in consumer products Some PFAS are known to be PBT: Persistent in the environment, Bioaccumulative in organisms,Toxic at relatively low (ppt) levels