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Topic: PFAS

per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances

  • WQA offers a guide to new PFAS Portal

    WQA’s Technical Affairs team — Director Eric Yeggy and Manager Bryanna Poczatek — join host Wes Bleed to explain how to utilize the new resources. The new PFAS Portal offers tools and resources to help pros better understand and explain PFAS, including a downloadable dealers guide, a leave-behind for customers, and a guide for how…

  • What You Need to Know About PFAS

    This consumer-oriented document offers answers to common questions about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly known as PFAS.  What are they? Why should you be concerned? How do you know if they’re in your water, and what do you do if they are?

  • PFAS and Forecasting the Regulatory Landscape

    “PFAS and Forecasting the Regulatory Landscape” is the third webinar in a series focusing on PFAS impacts on drinking water. The webinar starts with a summary of the 2023 PFAS Symposium, then WQA’s Government Affairs team recaps comments submitted to the EPA on proposed PFAS regulation. Epidemiologist Linda Dell of Ramboll, a global environmental consultancy…

  • PFAS

    Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large family of man-made chemicals that contain carbon, fluorine, and other elements. These chemicals have been in use since the 1940s and are found in a variety of products including firefighting foams, household products such as non-stick cookware, food packaging, and stain and water repellants.

  • WQA offers new testing capability for PFAS chemicals

    The Water Quality Association’s Laboratory is now accepting requests for reduction testing of PFOA, PFOS and other PFAS compounds with detection limits down to 1 ppt (parts per trillion).

  • What You Wish You Could Unknow about PFAS

    The Water Quality Resource Foundation set off a year studying the PFAS family of chemicals with this webinar, “What You Wish You Could UnKnow About PFAS.”

  • PFCs and PFAS Chart

    This report was compiled by the Water Quality Association (WQA). For more information, contact the Government Affairs Department at govaffairs@wqa.org. You can learn more about the Association at WQA.org or call 630-505-0609. Please refer to the regulation text for additional information, as regulations do change.