AGILENT Technologies has announced a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study perfluorinated compounds in the environment.
The study of perfluorinated organic compounds in the environment has increased recently as a result of continued studies that indicate their distribution, persistence and toxicity in the environment and biological systems.
The collaborative efforts between the National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) and Agilent will focus on identifying PFOS and PFOA (perfluorooctanesulfonic acid and perfluorooctanoic acid) isomers and related compounds while characterizing their environmental distributions and the potential pathways for human exposure.
The Agilent 6220 Accurate Mass TOF used in this CRADA will help EPA detect and identify compounds in part-per-trillion range.
This capability, along with Agilent MassHunter software, is well suited for detecting and identifying very small amounts of unknown compounds.
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