ASMS 2026

Covaris Sponsored Breakfast Seminar:
Blend & Inject Quantification of PFAS in Animal Tissue with QSight® 500 LC/MS/MS System

June 2^nd | 7:00 AM PT | Room 7AB in the San Diego Convention Center

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) continue to raise global concern due to their persistence, bioaccumulation potential, and increasing regulatory scrutiny in food products. Animal-derived food matrices present unique analytical challenges because of their complex composition, demanding highly sensitive, reliable, and efficient workflows.

Register for a Covaris, a PerkinElmer Company, sponsored seminar that explores a simplified and robust PFAS analysis using the QSight® 500 LC-MS/MS platform. Through real-world applications and research findings, our guest speakers will demonstrate how streamlined LC-MS/MS workflows can deliver high sensitivity, reproducibility, and confidence across challenging animal food matrices.

Attendees will gain insights into:

• Simplified PFAS extraction and analysis workflows using Blend & Inject
• High-throughput PFAS testing in complex food samples
• Regulatory-aligned PFAS methodologies
• Robust LC-MS/MS performance in high-matrix applications
• Comparative extraction approaches for PFAS analysis in eggs and chicken products 

Meet The Guest Speakers

Vlad Kardelis 

Technical Product Manager, Liquid Chromatography & Mass Spectrometry, PerkinElmer

Vladimir Kardelis joined PerkinElmer in 2019 as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer where he tested LCMS software builds before transitioning to an Application Scientist role in 2023. Since then, he helped develop applications for PFAS monitoring of drinking water in addition to producing sales materials for the QSight 500 LC/MS/MS system. By injecting samples in a wide variety of dirty environmental and food matrices, he is currently probing the QSight system for its limits of detection and robustness.

Marisa Vatteroni

Research Associate, University of Connecticut

Marisa Vatteroni is a research associate with the Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of Connecticut. She graduated from University of Connecticut in 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and has worked in an industry or research lab for three years. She is experienced in both GC-MS/MS and UHPLC-MS/MS analysis and has worked on many projects researching PFAS contamination across various matrices.