How Do You Detect PFAS?

A lot of people use mass spectrometry to measure it so how does that work but you're able to have a biological sample and you put the proper primers in the machine to know i want to detect this chemical specifically. When you do that you can get the levels or the concentrations back on your system okay well what if you don't know if it exists? So there's some chemical engineers right now who are kind of discovering new PFAS and they're publishing it, which is terrifying as a person because we know it is in our brains and we do not know what it does.

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