PFAS testing keeps expanding. What started with drinking water now includes soil, biosolids, and industrial discharge. With each new matrix comes stricter limits, longer compound lists, and more pressure on environmental labs.
In this executive summary, Agilent’s Tarun Anumol speaks with Philip Bassignani and Stephen Somerville from Pace Analytical. They tackle the real problems labs face—how to prepare tricky samples, manage data-heavy projects, and keep instruments running under load.
Their insight offers clear steps to control costs, maintain throughput, and meet changing regulations without sacrificing result quality.
Download this executive summary to:
- Understand how leading labs respond to fast-changing PFAS regulations
- See how contamination risks emerge from common lab materials
- Learn where SPE workflows break down—and how to adapt
- Explore how robust LC-MS/MS systems support high-throughput testing without downtime
Meet the Experts
 | Philip Bassignani As the Manager - Product Line of the Analytical Services Division at Pace, Philip Bassignani supports the organic product line sample preparation as well as both LC and GC methodologies, including MS-MS and HRMS. Mr. Bassignani is responsible for sample preparation and analytical method optimizations, new method implementations, development of new techniques, and staff training, as well as working with and providing technical support for the Pace sales team and project management staff. |
 | Stephen Somerville As Technical Director for PFAS at Pace, Stephen Somerville oversees all PFAS analysis operations across Pace’s nationwide network of environmental testing labs, including seven PFAS centers of excellence. He leads the development and implementation of both routine and customized analytical approaches across the network. Somerville also drives efforts to improve, standardize, and expand PFAS analytical services. He provides technical guidance to teams across sales, marketing, quality/compliance, project management, and analytics. |
 | Tarun Anumol, Ph.D. Tarun Anumol is Director of Global Applied Markets at Agilent Technologies, where he leads efforts to identify trends and meet testing needs across the environmental, food, materials, chemical, and energy sectors. With a background in analytical chemistry, he has developed methods to detect trace contaminants such as PFAS and pharmaceuticals in food and water. Anumol has authored over 30 peer-reviewed papers and serves on committees for ACIL, ACS, and NEMC. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical & Environmental Engineering from the University of Arizona and an MS from Carnegie Mellon University. |
