A Bold New Regulatory World: Understanding the testing needs for the New PFAS Drinking Water Regulations

The USEPA has recently announced its decision to formally regulate six PFAS in drinking water in the United States by proposing national primary drinking water regulation (NPDWR). This includes establishing legally enforceable maximum contaminant limits (MCLS) and proposed MCL goals for these six PFAS in drinking water. These are the first contaminants to be proposed for final regulation with set MCLs in the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) in over two decades. The proposed rule along with regulatory limits and requirements for monitoring, testing, and reporting will be discussed in this webinar.

In addition, we will present details about the analytical methods approved by the US EPA to do this testing including how these can be setup in a lab to obtain the highest quality data for PFAS with no contamination and low background. Finally, we will get the perspective of a commercial laboratory testing PFAS in water for over 10 years and their take on the analytical testing requirements and capabilities available to meet this new regulatory proposal.

Speaker: Tarun Anumol, PhD (Director, Global Environment Market, Agilent Technologies, Inc.)

Tarun Anumol is the Director for Global Environment Market at for Agilent Technologies. Previously, he was an LC-MS applications scientist at Agilent, focused on developing analytical methods for trace contaminants on LC-MS/MS and LC-Q/TOF in food and environmental matrices. Tarun has a strong history of working in the environmental & food testing industry, with a background in technical and applied science, with over 30 peer-reviewed journal publications in this area.

Prior to joining Agilent, Tarun graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemical & Environmental Engineering from the University of Arizona with a focus on emerging contaminant attenuation including PPCPs, PFAS and DBPs in water reuse schemes.

Speaker: Agustin Pierri, PhD (Technical Director, Weck Laboratories)

Dr. Agustin Pierri obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Southern California and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California Santa Barbara where he worked on synthesizing photoactive pharmaceuticals and nanocarriers. He has authored many scientific publications and has given numerous presentations at technical meetings on topics ranging from inorganic photochemistry to environmental analytical chemistry.

At Weck Labs, he has worked as an analyst in all sections of the laboratory, and has worked on developing methods for emerging contaminants by LC-MS/MS, GC-MS/MS, and ICP-MS. Since becoming the Laboratory Technical Director, he continues to be active in developing methods for emerging contaminants, as well as modernizing legacy analytical methods to lower detection limits and improve data quality. In 2020, he was appointed to the Environmental Laboratory Technical Advisory Committee, an advisory body to California ELAP.