Life in the PFAS(T) lane: Tips & Tricks to Achieve Robust & Accurate Analysis of PFAS in Water, Food & Consumer Products

Objective:

Provide background on the various regulatory developments and standard analytical methods to analyze PFAS in water along with instrumentation needed; guidance on testing PFAS in newer matrices like food and consumer products.

Key Learnings:

• Standard methods and Regulatory guidance on testing PFAS in Water
• Instrumentation setup and considerations to do accurate PFAS testing
• Specific tips & guide to overcoming PFAS-specific testing challenges
• Workflows for testing PFAS in other matrices like Food, Textiles and Consumer Products

Speaker Bio:

Tarun Anumol, Ph.D.,
Director, Global Environment & Food Markets, Agilent Technologies

Tarun Anumol has a background in technical and applied science and a strong history of working in the environmental & food testing industry, with over 30 peer-reviewed journal publications in this area. Previously, he was an LC-MS applications scientist at Agilent, focused on developing analytical methods for trace contaminants on LC-MS/MS and LC-Q/TOF in food and environmental matrices. Tarun graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemical & Environmental Engineering from the University of Arizona with a focus on emerging contaminant attenuation including PPCPs, PFAS and DBPs in water reuse schemes.