Puraffinity Ltd

Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are \>4700 human-made chemicals, used in broad applications in UK industries (OECD). The UK government (April 2023) published a report on Regulatory Management Options Analysis (RMOA) on PFAS; the launch of the UK REACH programme intended to restrict PFAS, noting that **'there is widespread human and wi...

Water quality and scarcity are considered high priority global risks, with recent trends showing that demand is expected to outstrip supply by 40% in 2030 (WEF, 2019; World Bank, 2019). Recently, the emergence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as an acute global water quality challenge has led to unprecedented political and regulatory upheaval...

The recent outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to protect public health and ensure populations are immune to pathogenic threats. It is well known that exposure to environmental pollution can cause impaired immune-responses, giving rise to the urgent need to mitigate exposure amongst the population. Per and polyfluoroalkyl substances...

"Puraffinity is a technology company developing novel materials for water treatment. Our leading product is made by attaching ""molecular receptors"" to solid granules. Molecular receptors are molecules that bind specifically to other target molecules. These granules that have the receptors attached can then be packed into tanks and used to capture the ta...

Nearly half of the world’s population will lack access to sufficiently clean water by 2030 (WHO 2015) and increasingly polluted water sources are a challenge to industry, environment and human life around the world. Persistent, toxic, pollutants such as arsenic and chromium accumulate in water supplies and the toxic anion variants of these heavy metals ar...