Many discussion and research endeavors have focused on subsistence fishermen and their families, but limited resources have been directed at other ways of "living off-of the land". Few know that there are a considerable number of people that live in the southern...
Most regulations – whether for the environmental, pharmaceutical, or consumer product sectors – are based on the total concentration of an element present in a given sample. Many regulatory bodies and standards organizations have promulgated methods to support...
Brooks Applied Labs (BAL) currently offers mercury (Hg) stable isotope ratio testing for environmental forensic studies. Mercury has a unique isotopic pattern and small differences in the ratios of these isotopes can help in identification of the source, transport,...
International Mercury Conference Last month, VP of Operations, Annie Carter, along with our Mercury Group Leader, David Westby, presented a poster at the International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP) in Providence, RI. The title of the poster they...
Some of our clients have questioned why so many separate bottles are needed for similar analyses, when it would be so much easier for their sample collection team to collect one bottle to be split by the lab upon receipt. For example, if a client wants to measure...
Dimethylmercury (DMeHg) is an extremely dangerous neurotoxin that can bioaccumulate in the body following exposure. This compound is not used in industry due to the risks involved, but it has been found to be produced under certain conditions when wastes containing...
Did you miss out on the International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP) this year (held in South Korea in June)? Here's a chance to get a rundown of conference highlights! BRL's Annie Carter will be speaking at the September 9th meeting of the Delta...
Since 1990 the International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP) has been providing scientists from all over the world with a forum for in-person discussion and information exchange of mercury-related contamination concerns. Brooks Rand Labs has been...
The Mercury Group at BRL has developed a method modification to EPA Method 1630 that significantly lowers the methylmercury (MeHg) method detection limit (MDL). At 0.005 ng/L, or parts-per-trillion (ppt), this new low-level MDL is 4 times lower than the standard MDL...