Can textiles be certified as PFAS-free?

Yes. Textiles and textile products are a product group of their own in the flustix PFAS-FREE certification scheme, including clothing, home textiles, technical textiles and coated or finished textile materials.

What gets particular attention

Testing focuses on impregnations, coatings and water-, oil- or soil-repellent finishes. That is where fluorinated functional chemistry sits, if it was used at all. Target substances have a limit of quantification of as a rule 10 to 25 ppb per substance, the fluorine sum parameter is at most 40 ppm.

Intermediates too

Raw and intermediate materials can be certified where they are a certification object in their own right or can be clearly assigned to a later one. A finisher or coater can therefore have the fabric tested before it becomes a finished product. The limits for all eight product groups are on the page about flustix PFAS-FREE.