ENVIRONMENTAL ACIDIC HERBICIDE METHODS AVAILABLE

• Chlorinated Acidic Herbicides - EPA 515.3, EPA 8151A

Whats Included::

• MEDIA INCLUDE: SUMMA CANISTER, TEDLAR BAG, SORBENT TUBE, AND CASSETTE FILTER. SOIL GAS MANIFOLDS ARE DESIGNED TO PERMIT 'SHUT IN TESTING' & HELIUM 'SHROUDS' WITH HELIUM-OXYGEN METER ARE AVAILABLE. SAMPLING MEDIA, PUMPS (LOW & HIGH VOLUME) RENTALS CAN BE PROVIDED BY MAI.
• HELIUM SHROUDS ARE AVAILABLE FOR DTSC COMPLIANT SOIL GAS SAMPLING. OUR SHROUDS COME COMPLETE WITH HELIUM TANK (99% PURITY), HELIUM METER, PURGE CAN, ACCESSORY EVACUATION SYRINGE, AND AUXILIARY PUMP, AND ARE VERY USER FRIENDLY & PORTABLE. THEY ARE DESIGNED TO ALLOW A BOREHOLE INTEGRITY TEST AND MANIFOLD SHUT-IN TEST USING 'REACH-IN' VALVING. SPECIAL DESIGNS ACCOMMODATE SPLIT SAMPLING, TWO-LEVEL SAMPLING, AND SEQUENTIAL TO-15 / TO-17 SAMPLING.
• T0-15, TO-17, MA DEP APH (fractionated vapor phase hydrocarbons) and ASTM D-1946-90 (Light & Permanent Gases) analyses are available.
• Soil gas, indoor air, ambient air, stack gases, gas cylinder purity (gases in gases), aerosols, air borne particulates & dissolved gases in water can be tested.
• Analytes include: Light & permanent gases, inert gases including helium, biogenic gases, VOCs, TPH / fuels, metals & various organics groups. We are rapidly expanding our air testing capabilities & look forward to the challenge of adding new methods & analytes to serve our client's needs.
• Excellent sensitivity. For vapor intrusion risk assessment, we are able to meet all 2019 soil gas ESL limits as well as those for indoor air except DBCP. Single digit pptv sensitivity is available in the SIM mode.
• EXTENDED TARGET LISTS FOR SOIL GAS & INDOOR WHICH INCLUDE MOST ESL & ASGI VOLATILE COMPOUNDS
• Enforceable occupational health & safety limits for chemicals in air are issued by the following:
  • OSHA PELs (Permissible Exposure Limits)
  • NIOSH RELs (Recommended Exposure Limits)
  • US DOE SCAPA TEELs (Temporary Emergency Exposure Limits for DOE sites only)
• Non-enforceable occupational health & safety limits for chemicals in air are issued by the following:
  • ACGIH TLVs (Threshold Limit Values)
  • SCAPA HBELs (Health-based Exposure Limits)
• OSHA & NIOSH limits are available at the CDC website, http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ npg/npgsyn-a.html

Glossary of Terms:

• Concentrations: may be given in ppm = ppmv; mg/m3; mppcf = millions of particles per cubic foot of air as determined from counting an impinger sample; fibers / cm3.
• PEL, Permissable Exposure Limit: OSHA (Occupational Health & Safety Administration). Pre-1989 PELs are enforced by OSHA due to a court ruling that overturned stricter 1989 PELs. The 1989 PELs have some regulatory effect for compounds that did not have PELs prior to 1989.
• REL, Recommended Exposure Limit: NIOSH ( National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health)
• TWA, Time Weighted Average: NIOSH REL designed to be applied in workplace settings for up to 10 hour days (OSHA 8 hour days) during a 40 hour work week
• STEL,:Short Term Exposure Limit: "ST" precedes numerical value. 15 minute TWA that should not be exceeded at any time during a workday. Numerical value is always higher than REL or PEL.
• C REL, Ceiling REL: "C" precedes numerical value. Should not be exceeded at any time. 15 minute TWA is used if instantaneous measurement is not possible. Numerical value is always higher than REL or PEL. Maximum values are specified exceptions to ceiling values. Maximum values are greater than ceiling values, & short duration exceptions to ceiling values are allowed up to the maximum value. For example, Ceiling value not to exceed "a 5 minute maximum peak value in any 2 hours during an 8 hour day.
• (skin): printed after numerical limit; indicates skin absorption is a potential intrusive pathway
• (total): printed after numerical limit; the numerical REL or PEL is for Total Particulate
• (resp): printed after numerical limit; the numerical REL or PEL applies to the 'Respirable Fraction' of the airborne particulate
• carcinogen: printed before or after numerical limit. Indicates that compound is a known or suspected carcinogen.
• ACGIH: American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists

Overview:

• State of the art automated instrumentation is conducive to accurate, rapid, and error free results.
• Flexibility to set-up for new analytes, for example organic acids or inorganic oxyanions.
• Excellent analyte sensitivity, with reporting limits at or below drinking water DLRs for clean matrices. Our RL for perchlorate in water has recently been lowered to 0.5 ug/L. Our bromate detection limit is 2 ug/L by 300.1 in water samples with up to 100ppm chloride.
• Applicable to drinking water, fresh & marine surface & ground water, effluent, storm water run off, waste water & wine.
• Solids such as soils, food & produce, meats, plants and other matrices can be tested if a suitable extraction is available.

• Compounds/Target List

Types of Samples Tested

• Industrial effluents
• Urban and agricultural surface water
• Groundwater remediation
• Contaminated soil & sludge
• Sediments - freshwater and marine
• Environmental spill clean-up materials
• Environmental waste samples
• Medical and healthcare products
• Household cleaning products
• Commercial waste products
• New chemicals for registration

Testing Capabilities

• NPDES Whole Effluent Testing (WET)
• Hazardous Waste Characterizations
• Stormwater Runoff
• Groundwater Remediation Studies
• Irrigated Lands Regulatory Programs
• Toxicity Identification Evaluations (TIEs)
• Dredge Materials Analysis
• Freshwater Sediment Assessments
• National Resource Damage Assessments
• Product Testing
• Customized Research Studies

Chlorinated Pesticides

• Full chlorinated pesticides capabilities using electron capture detector and gc/ms for confirmation.
• Flexibility to set-up for new analytes.
• Excellent analyte sensitivity, including reporting all water types at or below drinking water DLRs.
• Drinking water, fresh & marine surface & ground water, effluent, storm water run off, waste water, soils, sludge, solids, petroleum liquids, plant & animal tissue, food, wine and other matrices can be tested.

Nitrogen & Phosphorous Pesticides

• Full nitrogen and phosphorous pesticides capabilities with NPD and MSD technology.
• Flexibility to set-up for new analytes.
• Excellent analyte sensitivity, including reporting all water types at or below drinking water DLRs.
• Drinking water, fresh & marine surface & ground water, effluent, storm water run off, waste water, soils, sludge, solids, petroleum liquids, plant & animal tissue, food, wine and other matrices can be tested.

• MAI tests for Dioxins & Dibenzofurans by HRGC/HRMS (EPA 8290A & 1613). 15 day turn around time

• MAI's HRGC/HRMS (EPA 8290A, 1613) sensitivity is the best available by magnetic sector HRGC-HRMS
• MAI TEST FOR 209 PCB CONGENERS BY HRGC/HRMS (EPA 1668C) AND CAN MEET ALL APPLICABLE METHOD LIMITS. CUSTOM REPORTING LISTS AVAILABLE

Overview:

• Full hydrocarbon capabilities.
• TPH results include qualitative description of chromatographic patterns..
• Flexibility to analyze target lists or sum carbon ranges that are different from our routine templates, including BAAQMD 33 with CS2 extraction.
• Ability to achieve state mandated sensitivities for TPH(d/mo) water matrix using 40 ml VOAs
• ABILITY TO PERFORM ENCORE AND TERRACORE EPA 5035 ANALYSES FOR VOLATILE HYDROCARBONS.
• Availability of both 'in-a-vial' and 'column-style' silica gel clean up, with QC

• Ability to analyze extractable aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons per TPHCWG and MA DEP specifications. Proven ability to separate C6-C35 (benzene to PAH) aromatics from C6-C35 aliphatics.
• DRINKING WATER, FRESH & MARINE SURFACE & GROUND WATER, EFFLUENT, STORM WATER RUN OFF, WASTE WATER, SOILS, SLUDGE, SOLIDS, PETROLEUM LIQUIDS AND MANY OTHER MATRICES CAN BE TESTED.

Overview:

• FULL METALS CAPABILITIES, INCLUDING ICP-MS, ICP-OES, CVAFS AND CVAA.
• Flexibility and chemical expertise to undertake or design special digestion procedures.
• Excellent analyte sensitivity, especially ICP-MS & CVAFS, with reporting limits at or below drinking water & effluent RLs for clean matrices.

• Ability to analyze organotin, organomercury & organolead compounds & speciate mono-tetrabutyl tin, tetramethyl & tetraethyl lead, & methyl & ethyl mercury.
• SM3500-Fe B4c ferrous iron testing; method validated by internal study
• DRINKING WATER, FRESH & MARINE SURFACE & GROUND WATER, EFFLUENT, STORM WATER RUN OFF, WASTE WATER, SOILS, SLUDGE, SOLIDS, PETROLEUM LIQUIDS AND MANY OTHER MATRICES CAN BE TESTED.
• Compounds/Target List details

Overview:

• MCCAMPBELL ANALYTICAL OFFERS A WIDE RANGE OF MICROBIOLOGICAL ANALYSES FOR DRINKING WATER, FRESH AND MARINE RECREATIONAL WATER, EFFLUENT, SOIL, SLUDGE AND FOOD.
• Our results are rapid and accurate. All results are confirmed either by fluorescence, biochemical or serological procedures.

• IN ADDITION TO COMMON BACTERIOLOGICAL TESTS, WE ALSO OFFER TESTING FOR WATER SUITABILITY, INHIBITORY RESIDUE, IRON AND SULFUR BACTERIA, LEGIONELLA, PETROLEUM DEGRADING BACTERIA, ALGAE AND YEAST AND MOLDS.

OTHER PESTICIDES

• Full carbamate, phenyl urea, pyrethrins-pyrethroids, glyphosate, diquat-paraquat & endothall capabilities.
• Ability to test for acrolein algaecide & its breakdown product 3-HPA, as well as the Nonylphenol dispersant used in some glyphosate & clopyralid formulations.
• Ability to test for diquat, paraquat & glyphosate in soils.
• Flexibility to set-up for new analytes.
• Excellent analyte sensitivity, including reporting all water types at or below drinking water DLRs.
• DRINKING WATER, FRESH & MARINE SURFACE & GROUND WATER, EFFLUENT, STORM WATER RUN OFF, WASTE WATER, SOILS, SLUDGE, SOLIDS, PETROLEUM LIQUIDS AND MANY OTHER MATRICES CAN BE TESTED.

ACIDIC HERBICIDES

• Full acidic herbicide capabilities using diazomethane derivitization.
• Flexibility to set-up for new analytes, such as trichlopyr.
• Excellent analyte sensitivity, including reporting all water types at or below drinking water DLRs.
• Drinking water, fresh & marine surface & ground water, effluent, storm water run off, waste water, soils, sludge, solids, petroleum liquids, plant & animal tissue, food, wine and other matrices can be tested.

PESTICIDES:

• Full pesticide & herbicide capabilities
• Flexibility to set-up for new analytes.
• AED versatility and specificity to complement traditional ECD, NPD and MSD.
• GC-ICP/MS instrumentation for comprehensive pesticide analysis is under development.

• EXCELLENT ANALYTE SENSITIVITY, INCLUDING REPORTING ALL WATER TYPES AT OR BELOW DRINKING WATER OR EFFLUENT RLS. DRINKING WATER, FRESH & MARINE SURFACE & GROUND WATER, EFFLUENT, STORM WATER RUN OFF, WASTE WATER, SOILS, SLUDGE, SOLIDS, PETROLEUM LIQUIDS AND MANY OTHER MATRICES CAN BE TESTED.

Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) Testing

• We routinely use high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) for PAH analysis because it offers better sensitivity than GC-MS, and it permits compound confirmation by use of fluorescence – UV dual detectors.
• PNA and PAH are the same thing. PNA= PolyNuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbon

• GC/MS analysis in the SIM mode for PNAs is our norm by mass spectrometry because of its greatly increased sensitivity relative to the normal GC-MS scan mode.
• Compounds/Target List details

• Testing for environmental contaminants requiring special sensitivy or selectivity.

• Full GC-MS and GC-ELCD/PID capabilities.
• Ability to analyze for fuel oxygenates (MTBE, TBA, DIPE, ETBE, TAME, methanol, ethanol) and TPH (gasoline) by GC-MS.
• Flexibility to set-up for new analytes.
• Excellent analyte sensitivity including SIM mode analysis & reporting of all water types at or below drinking water DLRs.

• ABILITY TO PERFORM ENCORE AND TERRACORE EPA 5035 ANALYSES FOR VOCS AND HVOC / AROMATICS.
• DRINKING WATER, FRESH & MARINE SURFACE & GROUND WATER, EFFLUENT, STORM WATER RUN OFF, WASTE WATER, SOILS, SLUDGE, SOLIDS, PETROLEUM LIQUIDS AND MANY OTHER MATRICES CAN BE TESTED..

• Full testing capabilities for water treatment parameters & disinfectant by-products, which includes organic, wet chemistry & microbiological analytes

• Comprehensive offering of wet chemistry methods.
• State of the art automated instrumentation conducive to accurate, rapid, and error free results.

• Excellent analyte sensitivity, with reporting limits at or below drinking water & effluent RLs for clean matrices.
• DRINKING WATER, FRESH & MARINE SURFACE & GROUND WATER, EFFLUENT, STORM WATER RUN OFF, WASTE WATER, SOILS, SLUDGE, SOLIDS, PETROLEUM LIQUIDS AND MANY OTHER MATRICES CAN BE TESTED.

ORC Bench Studies

• We have performed several bench studies assessing ozonation by-products of natural aquifers simulated using coeval soil borings & groundwater.
• Client specifies conditions, such as water: soil ratios, dose, and chemical constituents of interest. Various ORCs (oxidant release compounds) can be used, for example MnO4-, H2O2, S2O8-2, O3.
• Custom large volume reaction vessels allow multiple fluid withdrawals without significantly effecting experimental water: soil ratios.
• We provide a detailed report, complete with chemical reactions, experimental data, bench & analytical QC & data interpretation.
• MAI is responsible for the data from start to finish. By-products & water quality parameters can exhibit very complex behavior, largely controlled by experimental & analytical technique, & MAI's oversite for this kind of data is crucial. The relationship between ORC dose & contaminant decrease is much simpler & in this context MAI can provide chemical analyses on client provided fluids without experimental oversite.

Industrial Process Research & Development

• Develop or use existing assay tests for product formulations.
• Improve chemical process efficiency by reducing process waste & increasing yields thru the determination of product & reactant mass balances at each manufacturing stage.
• Measure trace impurity levels harmful to product quality
• IDENTIFY UNKNOWN SUBSTANCES OR CONTAMINATION
• CTAS (COBALT THIOCYANATE ACTIVE SUBTANCES)

Preparative Clean Up

• Hydrocarbon fuels & oils, metabolites, biological or food matrix & elemental sulfur are common chromatography interferents. Without clean-up, dilution is required, & the loss of analyte sensitivity may render the data unusable.
• Various types of clean-ups are available from MAI, including GPC (Gel Permeation Chromatography), bench column chromatography, in-a-vial sorption, & chemical treatment.
• Clean-up techniques are best applied to restricted target groups because the specific chemical affinity of the target analytes is the key to the separation process. 'Basket' methods such as EPA 8270 have no useful clean-up procedure whereas restricted chemical groups such as PCBs, PNAs and dioxins have very effective clean-ups.
• GPC (EPA 3660) is applied to matrices containing biological (cell material, peptides, proteins, triglycerides, fats/oils) interferents and/or elemental sulfur & combines size exclusion & affinity chromatography. It is not sufficient by itself to clean up natural matrices but can be a useful starting point, especially for time integrated SPMD samples.
• Bench column chromatography (EPA 3600) primarily uses silica gel, alumina or florisil as sorbents in affinity chromatography & requires skilled chemists, well developed techniques & accompanying QC data for effective use.
• Chemical treatments, such as water washing to separate water soluble from water-insoluble compounds, or acid-permanganate clean-up of PCBs in oils, are generally less effective than bench column chromatography but are inexpensive & have situational applications.
• MAI can perform customer specifed clean-up procedures or develop custom clean-up procedures upon request.