New challenges are what make working at this lab fun

Clean Harbors of Baltimore, Inc., is a transfer storage and disposal facility and part of the largest hazardous waste disposal company in North America.The facility provides recycling, treatment and disposal of a variety of hazardous and nonhazardous wastes and analyzes hundreds of samples each month.

Michael Glavanovich receives calls with all kinds of strange requests. Once, a woman phoned to ask him if a piece of meat tossed into her yard for her dog contained poison.

Dionex Application Notes 817 and 818 describe using automated solid-phase extraction (SPE) versus liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) for the determination of oil and grease from liquid (typically water) samples to meet the requirements of EPA Method 1664.

In many applications, continuous emission monitoring is required to collect and analyze at least one sample every fifteen minutes from industrial processes. High-purity gases are vital for this purpose, as are custom standards for head space analysis of water and soil samples.

For Florida's Advanced Environmental Laboratories, success is achieved through strong management support and smart hiring.

Lab manager Larry Decker's TestAmerica environmental lab in Connecticut is where he and his staff analyze thousands of soil, wastewater, and monitoring well samples each month. One key to the lab's success is a management team that works on training every individual to be reactive and ready to go if the person is needed in a different department.

Sample matrices are known to create analytical obstacles during routine Total Organic Carbon (TOC) analysis.

A case study shows how ICP-MS played a vital role in the investigation of lead levels in a public schools system's drinking water supply.