Cambium Analytica LLC, a Traverse City-based company that has rapidly built up a large cannabis-testing business, is diversifying into testing for PFAS, the so-called forever chemicals that have become a growing environmental threat in recent years.
The company is building out a new 2,500-square-foot lab just west of the Munson Hospital campus and awaiting delivery of a mass spectrometer to test for PFAS and what are termed CECs, contaminants of emerging concern, chemicals and toxins that have been found in bodies of water that may cause ecological or human health impacts and are not regulated.
Cambium Analytica LLC, a Traverse City-based company that has rapidly built up a large cannabis-testing business, is diversifying into testing for PFAS, the so-called forever chemicals that have become a growing environmental threat in recent years.
The company is building out a new 2,500-square-foot lab just west of the Munson Hospital campus and awaiting delivery of a mass spectrometer to test for PFAS and what are termed CECs, contaminants of emerging concern, chemicals and toxins that have been found in bodies of water that may cause ecological or human health impacts and are not regulated.
PFAS is the acronym for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a large and complex group of synthetic chemicals that have been widely used in consumer products around the world since about the 1950s. They are used to keep food from sticking to packaging or cookware, make clothes and carpets resistant to stains and create firefighting foam that is more effective. They are used in the aerospace, automotive, construction and electronics industries. PFAS molecules have chains of linked carbon and fluorine atoms. Because the carbon-fluorine bond is one of the strongest, these chemicals don’t degrade easily, and over time, they leak into the soil, water and air.
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