Changes to global environmental legislation regarding the manufacture and supply of fluorosurfactants used in AFFFs have meant that firefighting foam manufacturers have been required to reformulate their foam concentrates to be able to use C6 fluorosurfactants to replace longer chain molecules. Seaguard Chemicals has worked with suppliers of Fluorosurfactants and has formulated all our fluorosurfactants with C6 products.

The Seaguard range of C6 high quality Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF) concentrates are compliant with the EPA 2010/15 PFOA Stewardship Programme. All fluorosurfactants used in the manufacture of Seaguard firefighting foams are C6 based. Unlike imported firefighting foam concentrates, all the fluorosurfactants used by Seaguard are sourced in Australia and have been tested and approved for use by NICNAS in Australia. Imported foams may contain fluorosurfactants that have not been approved by NICNAS or may be C8 products and therefor breach Australian regulations.
Ref: NICNAS – National Industrial Chemical Notification and Assessment Scheme

The Seaguard AFFF-C6 Foam concentrates already meet EU 2017/1000 – Guidelines
and contain considerably lower PFAS type contaminants than the maximum EU quantities allowable under this regulation.

The FPSA has released a bulletin-“ Selection and use of firefighting foams”, May 2020, which states ”C6 foams may contain trace levels of PFOA, which are unavoidably produced by the manufacturing process, but these foams are acceptable under the US EPA PFOA Stewardship program and the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Regulation (EU) 2017/1000, see Clauses 8.1.2 and 8.1.3.”