PFAS Meeting Book MYM 2023

Sources of PFAS to food

Environmental contamination from the aquatic environment: • Landfill leachate • Effluents from fluorochemical manufacturing facilities • WWTP (wastewater treatment plant) • Reclaimed water – agricultural fields • Contaminated biosolids – agricultural fields • AFFF (aqueous film forming foam) • Contaminated groundwater

Food packaging: • Migration from grease-proof food contact substance • Percent migration dependent on condition of use, time and temperature conditions

• Uptake into livestock • Uptake to agriculture

AOAC INTERNATIONAL Midyear Meeting March 13 – 17, 2023 | Gaithersburg, MD