1940sIndustry action
Commercial production begins
About Status Health
Mapping Your Exposure.
Mapping Your Exposure.
The Mission Behind Status
Trace the journey from the early 20th century
to our promise to you and your health.
A Century of Innovation at Your Fingertips
Status Health harnesses the power of mass spectrometry for everyone — and points it at the 40 Forever Chemicals that matter most.
- 1912Foundations
J.J. Thomson separates ions by mass-to-charge ratio and creates the foundation of mass spectrometry.
- 1919Resolution
Francis W. Aston builds the first precise mass spectrograph, accurately measuring atomic masses and proving stable isotopes.
- 1963Exploration
NASA’s Explorer 17 carries the first orbital mass spectrometer to analyze Earth’s upper-atmosphere composition.
- 1985Biology
John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka introduce soft ionization, enabling intact biomolecule analysis and transforming medicine.
- 2023Clinical grade NIH
Gary Patti’s lab selected as NIH Gold Standard for exposomics as part of a nation-wide health initiative.
- 2024Status Health
Gary Patti and Danny Griffin found Status Health to bring industrial-grade mass spectrometry to everyone — starting with a 40-compound Forever Chemical panel you can run from home.
The regulatory story
How we got here
Eighty years separate the first non-stick pan from the first enforceable US drinking-water limit. The timeline below is the short version — color marks what kind of action each was, because they are not interchangeable: an industry phase-out is voluntary, a treaty listing binds countries, a hazard classification sets no limit, and only an EPA rule sets a number a US utility must meet.
56 years, and almost nothing happens
2000–2002Industry action
3M announces and completes its PFOS phase-out
2006–2015Industry action
EPA PFOA Stewardship Program; US manufacture of PFOA and long-chain homologues ends
2009Stockholm Convention
PFOS listed under the Stockholm Convention, Annex B (restriction)
2019Stockholm Convention
PFOA listed, Annex A (elimination)
2022Stockholm Convention
PFHxS listed, Annex A
2023Hazard classification
IARC classifies PFOA as Group 1 (carcinogenic to humans) and PFOS as Group 2B
2024US regulation
EPA finalizes the first US drinking-water limits for six PFAS
2025Stockholm Convention
Long-chain PFCAs (C9 to C21) added to Annex A, capturing six compounds in our panel
May 2026US regulation
EPA proposes rescinding four of the six limits, upholding PFOA and PFOS. Unresolved
2031US regulation · proposed
Proposed compliance deadline, if the extension stands
The replacement pattern. Each restriction on a long-chain compound has been followed by a short-chain or ether replacement from the same family: PFOS to PFBS, PFOA to GenX and ADONA, legacy sulfonamides to fluorotelomers. The replacements generally do have shorter biological half-lives — but they also have far thinner toxicological databases, are more mobile in water, and are harder to remove by treatment. Shorter residence in the body is not the same as lower hazard.
Gary Patti, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer & Cofounder
Mass Spec KOL~20k CitationsNIH Gold Standard
Dr. Patti is a leading expert in metabolomics and mass spectrometry, with over 20,000 citations to his work. His laboratory was selected as the NIH Gold Standard for exposomics as part of a nation-wide health initiative. His pioneering research has transformed our understanding of how environmental exposures — Forever Chemicals among them — impact human health at the molecular level.
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Forty Forever Chemicals, measured in your own blood, explained in plain language — so the decisions about your exposure are yours to make.
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