PFAS & Our Planet: Environmental Monitoring

PFAS & Our Planet is a webinar series on PFAS testing in environmental samples, food and food contact materials, textiles and other materials. Alongside the laboratory and regulatory lens, the series addresses the broader planetary impact of PFAS, including their persistence and movement through water, soil, air, food systems, and materials. It brings together what laboratories and industry need to understand now: where PFAS rules are heading, which sample types are under increasing focus, what needs to be measured, and how those needs translate into method selection, workflow setup, and result reporting.

Webinar Series Details

• One registration to attend the full three-part series
• Questions for experts in advance and/or live Q&A
• Access to recorded sessions provided

Who Should Attend: 

Environmental and water testing laboratories, food testing laboratories, food contact material and packaging laboratories, textile and materials testing laboratories, contract testing laboratories, public sector and regulatory laboratories, manufacturers of food, packaging, textiles, and consumer goods, quality, product safety, regulatory affairs, and sustainability functions, and research laboratories working on PFAS analysis.

Recommended for: 

Analytical chemists, laboratory managers, QA/QC managers, regulatory affairs managers, food safety and product safety managers, environmental scientists, packaging and food contact materials specialists, textile and materials testing leads, sustainability and product stewardship managers, validation and method development scientists, and technical leaders in contract, public sector, and research laboratories.

Regulatory context covered: 

EU and U.S. PFAS developments, food contact and packaging measures, environmental monitoring frameworks, OEKO-TEX requirements for textiles and materials, Singapore’s food and water surveillance activity, India’s draft PFAS-related packaging amendment, and emerging movement in parts of Southeast Asia like Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Philippines.

Environmental Monitoring

PFAS monitoring in water, soil, and air is moving into a stricter phase as regulators place more focus on drinking water, groundwater, wastewater, surface water, and contaminated land. This session will cover the main reference points shaping that shift, including the EU Drinking Water Directive, the U.S. EPA drinking water framework, the broader EU REACH PFAS restriction process, and environmental guidance such as Australia’s PFAS National Environmental Management Plan.

It will then move into the laboratory workflow for environmental matrices, covering contamination control, blanks strategy, sample preparation and cleanup, targeted LC/MS/MS for non-volatile PFAS, wider screening where needed, and reporting approaches suited to monitoring and site assessment.

Presenter: Jamie Fox (Technical Sales Director and PFAS Practice Leader, SGS, Environment, Health and Safety (North America), USA)

Presenter: Courtney Milner, Ph.D. (Product Specialist, Agilent Technologies, Australia)