Recent News

The EPA just announced final PFAS Drinking Water MCLs (maximum contaminant levels).

EPA released an updated Interim Guidance on Destroying and Disposing of Certain PFAS and PFAS-Containing Materials. The guidance contains a new technology evaluation framework that enables technology developers to assess emerging innovative destruction and disposal methods.

Eurofins Environment Testing US (EET US) is proud to announce that they have joined the EarthSoft/EQuIS™ Business Partner Program. This partnership supports the increasing demand for digitalization within the environment testing industry.

The final version of EPA 1633 was released by the U.S. EPA on January 31, 2024. EPA encourages laboratories, regulatory authorities, and other interested parties to review and use these methods, and EPA recommends their use now in NPDES permits. Eurofins has thoroughly reviewed the final version of method 1633 and determined what is needed for implementation across our network of PFAS laboratories.

Eurofins Environment Testing in Sacramento, California in partnership with EPA Region 10 worked with EPA’s Office of Water to publish Draft Method 1634, an analytical procedure to test for 6PPD-Quinone in surface water and stormwater.

Scientists are urging further testing of a hazardous toxin affecting residents in Rome, Georgia, following an Atlanta News First investigation that uncovered elevated levels of perfluoroalkyl (PFAS) compounds in some residents' blood.

Draft 4 of EPA Method 1633 has been published with the note that this method is now finalized for the aqueous matrices.

New Publication in Frontiers: Expansion of wastewater-based disease surveillance to improve health equity in California’s Central Valley: sequential shifts in case-to-wastewater and hospitalization-to-wastewater ratios

In response to the ever-growing need to monitor for narcotic consumption at community level, Eurofins Environment Testing US will host a webinar, Harnessing Wastewater Surveillance for Illicit Narcotics and Opioids Monitoring, on June 20, 2023, at 1:30 pm EST. The webinar will demonstrate how valuable a tool wastewater surveillance is in comprehending the prevalence and dynamics of substance abuse disorders within communities.

The American Chemical Society’s Environmental Science and Technology journal recently published a study, “A Self-Collection Blood Test for PFASs: Comparing Volumetric Micro-Samplers with a Traditional Serum Approach” which reports a test developed by Eurofins Environment Testing is a viable self-collection tool for assessing human exposure to PFAS.