[davekeck]

To work towards eliminating PFAS in everyday products, I envisioned a service where people could send in things they own to have them tested, and the results would be published on a website/app and searchable via barcode. Win/win: users get free PFAS testing, and the service gets free products to test to create a database.

I researched how to perform rigorous PFAS testing but it looks like the best method is PIGE which requires a particle accelerator, which aren’t exactly easy to come by.

Anyway just posting this in case anyone has thoughts or would be interested in working on something like this.

[djhn]

I love the idea. Kind of like harm reduction through drug testing. Except the drugs are legal and don’t give you a high.

I would probably rather advocate for Which (UK), Consumer Reports (US) and various similar organisations to work on this than start a new org.

Unless you just use this as a marketing strategy for a commercial lab (in which case you will simply forget the noble initial goal and end up simply operating a testing laboratory business.)