PFAS SamplePrep seminar Tuesday 18 November 2025
PFAS: a problem and an opportunity for the laboratory
There is no getting around it: PFAS is recognised worldwide as a major environmental problem.
However, this also presents an opportunity for laboratories — an opportunity to contribute to mapping PFAS in soil, water and food and thus play a valuable role in protecting the environment and public health.
Determining PFAS is challenging: extremely low concentrations, high risk of contamination and a need for reliable, reproducible results.
A good analysis starts with good sample preparation — without that foundation, even the best analysis method loses its value.
Why attend this seminar
Do you spend too much time on PFAS (soil) extraction and repeat the same manual steps every day?
Then this seminar is for you.
Discover a fully automated PFAS extraction workflow with the ePrep® ONE and Advion-Interchim SPE-LV6.
During this seminar, we will show you how to:
- minimise manual operations
- significantly increase the throughput of your analyses
- and still achieve low quantification limits (e.g. 0.02 µg/kg for soil).
And in the afternoon, you can experience the technologies for yourself during practical hands-on demonstrations of the ePrep® ONE, SPE systems and additional sample prep tools.
This will allow you to see in practice how automation works — from extraction to clean-up — and what this can mean for your own workflow.
In short: in just one day, you will discover how you can make your PFAS sample preparation faster, cleaner and more reliable with modern, integrated solutions.
Our contribution
Instrument Solutions is organising this day together with experts from Advion Interchim, ePrep Europe and Salm en Kipp.
We are pooling our knowledge to demonstrate how SPE and µSPE can be efficiently combined into a complete and automated workflow – from extraction to analysis.
In addition, cryogenic grinding and microwave sample preparation will be briefly explained as complementary techniques for optimally preparing samples for PFAS determination.
| Time | Subject |
|---|---|
| 09:30 – 09:50a.m. | Welcome |
| 09:50 – 10:00a.m. | opening by Jan Volkers, Product Manager Instrument Solutions |
| 10:00 – 10:30a.m. | ‘SPE clean-up for water, from µL up to 1L’, by Alice Ryckebush, Product Manager Advion Interchim |
| 10:30 – 11:00a.m. | ‘Automation of clean-up water, soil and fruit samples as SamplePrep for µSPE’, by Dr Cassandra Rusher, Senior European Technical Support Specialist ePrep Europe |
| 11:00 – 11:15a.m. | break |
| 11:15 – 11:35a.m. | ‘Application example: SPE clean-up for water’ by Jan Volkers, Product Manager Instrument Solutions |
| 11:35 – 11:50a.m. | ‘Sample extraction for clean-up, using MicroWave technology’ by Maarten Schouffoer, Product Specialist, SALM EN KIPP |
| 11:50 – 12:05a.m. | ‘Cryogenic grinding of samples using Freezer/Mill® and/or Cryo-Blade™’, by Jeroen van Boxtel, Product Specialist, Instrument Solutions |
| 12:05 – 12:45p.m. | lunch |
| 12:45 – 15:00a.m. | Hands on demonstrations: ePrep, SPE, MicroWave and Freezer Mill/CryoBlade |
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bijvoorbeeld voor de (off-line) µSPE analyse van Glyfosaat/AMPA veel tijd wordt bespaard. Glyfosaat is een chemische verbinding uit de groep Fosfaten en ‘s werelds meest gebruikte herbicide/bestrijdingsmiddel. Het werd voor het eerst in 1950 gemaakt en gebruikt. Vanaf die tijd is het dus in ons milieu geïntroduceerd.Glyfosaat wordt voornamelijk omgezet door micro-organismen. De afbraak verloopt via de verbinding Aminomethylfosfonzuur (AMPA), dat daarom ook een analytische relevantie krijgt.