3M Offers Researchers New Resources to Improve PFAS Testing (3)

3M Co. is publicizing its studies on PFAS chemicals in the hopes that researchers, who are using varying methods to test for the chemicals, will rely on the company’s standards and resources.

The company’s new research clearinghouse, announced Thursday, includes selected studies on PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, that 3M itself conducted. The company sad it’s also making samples of PFAS mixtures available to institutions and researchers to help calibrate their analytical equipment.

Most of the studies are years or decades old, and the clearinghouse is missing information on the historic and current production of PFAS, as well ...