BRACETalks: PFAS – Where are we now?

Date: March 28, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Location: Leacock Building-RM 232

Free Hybrid Event

PFAS are ubiquitous and regulatory thresholds are continuously being updated and further and further restricted. There are up to 12 000 estimated different PFAS molecular combinations. This can quickly become a monitoring nightmare for analytical chemists and even worse if trying to evaluate the toxicology of each individual compound. There has been much movement in terms of drinking water quality guidelines but there is definitely some lag in terms of the capacity of regulatory agencies to follow with concomitant and coherent regulations for agrifood systems: limits on food, soils, biosolids, and potential environmental toxicology impacts are lagging even further behind. Partly from lack of toxicology data and partly because regulatory thresholds must evolve alongside analytical methods to be able to regulate PFAS as a group or combinations thereof. It is also important to provide solutions to treat water and other products to remove PFAS. Let’s explore what we know and what we need to know on how to measure, regulate and remove PFAS.

Sébastien Sauvé

Sébastien Sauvé is full professor in Environmental Chemistry and outgoing Associate Dean of Research and Creation of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the Université de Montréal. He is also foreign correspondent to the Académie d’Agriculture de France. His laboratory works on a variety of subjects going from contaminated soils, circular economy, blue-green algae, ultratrace analysis using mass spectrometry, as well as the impacts of emerging contaminants on health and the environment. Pr. Sauvé has published more than 300 papers and book chapters.