A Novel Method for the Fast, Sensitive, and Simple Analysis of Total Fluorine in Wastewater

Introduction

Many of the most important products of the chemical and life-science industries, from pharmaceuticals, through fine and specialty chemicals, to polymers, rely on organic fluorine chemistry for their useful properties. The accelerating production volumes of fluorinated organic substances expectably leads to their increasing release into the environment. Some of these substances are already listed as persistent organic pollutants by the Stockholm Convention (Annex B -restriction) and the European water framework directive (WFD).