Human exposure to PFAS compounds comes from a wide variety of sources, including food packaging materials, commercial household products, certain workplace environments, drinking water sources and living organisms in which these substances have been shown to accumulate and persist over time.

Waters offers comprehensive workflows for extraction, screening, quantification, and reporting of PFAS in water and environmental samples and has developed methods to help you stay ahead of any challenge with PFAS analysis.

• Evaluation of the Performance of a UPLC-MS/MS Method for the Determination of PFAS in Drinking Water, for Checking Compliance with the EU Drinking Waters Directive, Using an Interlaboratory Study

• Routine Determination of Per- and Polyfluoronated Alkyl Substances (PFAS) in Drinking Water by Direct Injection Using UPLC-MS/MS to Meet the EU Drinking Water Directive 2020/2184 Requirements

• A Large Volume Injection Technique Using Simplified Sample Preparation for Perfluorinated Alkyl Substance (PFAS) in Soils in Accordance with ASTM 7968

• Large Volume Direct Injection Method for the Analysis of Perfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS) in Environmental Water Samples in Accordance with ASTM 7979-17

• An Alternative Ionization Technique for Perfluorinated Alkyl Substance (PFAS) Analysis: Evaluating UniSpray for Water and Soil Samples

• Improved Sensitivity for the Detection of Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances in Environmental Water Samples Using a Direct Injection Approach on Xevo™ TQ Absolute

• Analysis of Legacy and Emerging Perfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS) in Environmental Water Samples Using Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) and LC-MS/MS

• Approaches to Non-targeted Analyses of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Environmental Samples

• QuEChERS Extraction of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) from Edible Produce with Sensitive Analysis on Xevo TQ-XS

• Total Workflow for the Sensitive Analysis of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Fish, Meat, Edible Offal, and Eggs

• Extracting and Analyzing PFAS from Human Serum

• Trace Level Analysis of Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Solid Cosmetics Following Methanol Extraction

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