PFAS conversations have typically focused on a few “usual suspects,” like PFOS and PFOA. But another compound is rapidly gaining the world’s attention.
TFA, or trifluoroacetic acid, is an ultra-short-chain PFAS increasingly found throughout our environment. In rainwater, groundwater, soil, and even remote environments.
In this episode of PFAS Pioneers, Martin Scheringer, Research Scientist and Lecturer at ETH Zürich and Professor of Environmental Chemistry at RECETOX, Masaryk University, joins Fajer Mushtaq to unpack this part of the PFAS landscape that has long been overlooked.
Together they explore why TFA has become so widespread, where the biggest scientific blind spots still lie, and how policy can evolve to better reflect the full PFAS picture.
