About PFAS

About PFAS

PFAS (per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances), sometimes called highly fluorinated substances, is a large class of chemicals that today may comprise more than 9 000 compounds. During the last decade, the environmental impact and health effects caused by these "forever chemicals" has received increasing attention. This applies in particular to drinking water that has been contaminated at fire training sites. At the same time, PFAS content in other matrices such as food, soil and products has come more into focus. In the same regulation has been broadened and limit values have been lowered. Eurofins offers a wide range of analyses that can be used in the work of identifying this group of chemicals.

Eurofins began analysing PFAS at the beginning of the 2000s and today our laboratory in Sweden is recognised as one of the globally leading PFAS labs. Matrices include water, food, biota, solid environmental matrices (e.g. soil, sediment, sludge, waste), fire foam etc. Accreditation is available for a number of methods and specifically the matrices water (clean/unclean), soil and fish/shellfish.

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