Brooks Applied Labs’ premise for environmental investigations identifies that marginal data quality and “accepted” methodologies can only provide a rudimentary representation of projected contaminant impacts on flora and fauna. True risk assessment and site interpretation necessitates qualitative and quantitative identification of the specific contaminants of interest accompanied by characterization of the contaminants’ environment.
Analytical and professional services offered by Brooks Applied Labs (BAL) can support all phases of contaminant investigations associated with trace metals. From regulatory compliance monitoring to bench scale treatability studies, BAL scientists can support all of your analytical needs. We continually invest in some of the most advanced technologies available to the scientific community to stay one step ahead of any issues that can impact your project.
Our advanced analytical services set us apart from other routine environmental labs, to help you meet your goals for even the most challenging environmental testing projects.
Brooks Applied Labs offers ultra-low detection limits on:
- Air & Gas Testing
- Industrial Wastewater
- Seawater/Brackish Water
- Soils & Sediments – We specialize in “true” total metals quantification in solids, mercury & methylmercury, pore water extractions, elutriate generation, and bioavailability
- Tissues and Biological Samples
- Water
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Environmental News
Fate of Mercury in Animal Inoculations
Ethylmercury is a major component of thimerosal, a vaccine preservative, and it has neurotoxic effects that are similar to those of methylmercury, but its tissue deposition and clearance rates in organisms are not well-understood. In order to better understand the...
Misleading Reports for Heavy Metals in Rice
At a press conference during a meeting of the American Chemical Society, researchers from Monmouth University claimed that they had found as much as 12 milligrams of lead per kilogram of rice imported from Taiwan and China, or 40 times what the FDA considers a...
Genes that Methylate Mercury Identified
When mercury is released into the environment it can be transformed from inorganic mercury into the far more toxic form of methylmercury. Scientists have known for decades that bacteria are largely responsible for the methylation of mercury, but the precise mechanism...
Join us at Pittcon Conference & Expo 2013
Organized by The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, a not-for-profit educational corporation (comprised of the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh and the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh), the Pittcon Conference &...
Global Seafood Mercury Concentrations
Through collaborative research, the Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) assesses emerging threats to wildlife and ecosystems, while using those findings to inform decision makers and advance environmental awareness. The BRI Center for Mercury Studies, in cooperation...