New Jersey Institute of Technology chemists have demonstrated a new lab-based method to detect traces of PFAS from food packaging material, water and soil samples in just three minutes or less.
Under 3 minutes? What’s the rush, these are forever chemicals, they’ve got all the time in the world.
“ Chen and colleagues say the new method—involving an ionization technique for analyzing the molecular composition of sample materials called paper spray mass spectrometry (PS-MS)—is 10–100 times more sensitive than the current standard technique for PFAS testing, liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry.”
Or just answer this questionnaire I just made up:
Is that water? Yes Did you melt it from an ancient glacier? No Is it from planet earth? Yes
You’ve got microplastics flavored water!
PFAS <> microplastics, but you’re not wrong
In an attempt to be funny, I missed that! I should have known because if I’m not mistaken microplastics are super hard to measure accurately and LCMS isn’t even one of the methods used!
When can I have this built into my Lifestraw pitcher?
