PFAS CLEAR™

PFAS contamination in drinking water has become one of the most pressing challenges facing water utilities today. With regulatory limits tightening, including the EPA's enforceable Maximum Contaminant Levels for PFOA and PFOS, utilities are under mounting pressure to monitor their systems with greater frequency and spatial resolution than ever before. The problem is that the established analytical method, LC-MS/MS, was designed for the laboratory. It delivers the precision regulators require for compliance, but it wasn't built for routine field screening. It's expensive, slow, and logistically demanding in a way that makes broad, distributed monitoring impractical for most utilities.

Turner Designs addresses this gap with PFAS Clear™, a handheld for indicative analysis that delivers PFAS results in approximately 15 seconds. No laboratory infrastructure, no chromatography, no waiting days or weeks for results. PFAS Clear™ is not designed to replace LC-MS/MS for compliance reporting. It's designed to make the lab more effective, giving utilities a fast, affordable first look at their distribution systems, so they know where to send samples and when to act. For the first time, water utilities have a practical field option for PFAS screening that's deployable at scale.