Strategies to address monitoring and compliance testing of PFAS in food

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been a hot topic for the past few years, and substances of interest for decades. Recently, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) established tolerable weekly intakes for four PFAS substances, leading to maximum limits within the European Union for these compounds in fish, meat, and eggs. This development means that robust and sensitive analytical methods for PFASs are in high demand.

Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR) has developed several methods to serve the different purposes of PFAS analysis: official food control, monitoring at low levels for risk assessments, and research into additional substances and matrices. In this webinar, Dr. Kerstin Krätschmer and Dr. Richard Jack will give an overview of the methods, common challenges, the validation scheme described in the guidance document published by the European Union Reference Laboratory (EURL) for POPs in feed and food, and some analysis results in food and produce from the Netherlands.

Key learning objectives

• Learn about PFAS sample preparation and analysis challenges from food matrices
• Understand how to ensure performance requirements for European Reference Laboratory requirements

Who should attend?

• Scientists and lab technicians involved in PFAS analysis
• Food safety analysts
• Food manufacturers that wish to learn more about PFAS analysis

Certificate of attendance
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