In this episode 14, we discuss the current state of PFAS/PFOS.

PFAS/PFOS is commonly referred to as the "Forever Chemical." Forever Chemical due to its strong resistance to being broken down by purpose and design.

However, today, contrary to what the name implies, there are all kinds of companies with solutions that are claimed to remediate PFAS/PFOS.

Fiver years ago, Randy Cook of OMG Solutions and Myself of Hanby Environmental, set out to develop solutions for PFAS/PFOS and were successful. OMG Solutions developed ELMN8 Decon for the immediate remediation of PFAS/PFOS upon contact. And Hanby Environmental, developed a Field Test Kit that provided the means to detect and quantify PFAS/PFOS in 10 minutes.

During the development of ELMN8 Decon, we had to wait 60-90 days for results to come back from Laboratories which is why Hanby Environmental developed the Field Test Kit to get the results in 10 minutes.

Of course, 5 years ago, everyone still believed that PFAS/PFOS was FOREVER and thus no one believed in our solutions. Our solutions that remediate PFAS/PFOS upon contact and to be able to detect and quantify in 10 minutes.

Fast forward 5 years, now there are all kinds of companies who have developed solutions with claims to be able to remediate PFAS/PFOS.

We are grateful for their development work which gives further credibility to the fact that what we said we did 5 years ago is in fact possible.

However, the solutions that have been developed are large pieces of equipment that size of rooms, that are expensive and that can only remediate in small batch quantities.

So what I ask, is based on the fact that we know PFAS/PFOS is everywhere, are these solutions practical? I suggest that they are not.

So that's the difference in the solutions that we developed and the advantages they provide, we developed them to be practical. I believe a lot of these other solutions were developed with proof of concept in mind, to prove that PFAS/PFOS can be remediated. So we thank them for proving what we have been saying for 5 years.

So while on the analytical side, it is recommended to use our Field Test Kit to monitor the remediation down to a point of say 1 ppb, then begin relying upon the laboratory, but as far as the remediation of PFAS/PFOS goes, there really is no comparison, ELMN8 Decon is the only product that works upon contact, making it practical to use on large quantity batches vs the other developed solutions out there that are simply impractical being larger pieces of expensive machinery that can only handle small quantities.

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