Ana-Lab provides complete laboratory services to meet the most stringent customer requirements. The company`s success has been achieved by serving customer needs with exceptional and reliable laboratory services.
Ana-Lab has extensive experience and expertise in pollution monitoring and waste disposal. We analyze wastewater, ground water and solid waste for a full range of parameters including heavy metals, priority pollutants, herbicides, pesticides, and PCB`s. Ana-Lab recently scored a perfect 100% on a group of EPA blind check samples.
Ana-Lab test methods have Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), and U. S. Public Health Service approval. Ana-Lab prides itself in offering clients specialized custom services by developing unique procedures to meet their particular analytical needs. We work closely with our clients to provide them the quality service they deserve.
Ana-Lab offers TCLP extractions followed by precise analytical procedures to meet government regulation on solid waste.
To meet these specifications Ana-Lab is equipped with state-of-art instruments, including GC/MS, ICP/MS, ICP, GC, HPLC, AA/HgA and other sophisticated, quality instrumentation.
The company`s laboratory is on the cutting edge of rapidly moving technology to meet our clients most exacting requirements.
Ana-Lab`s consistent quality analytical performance is evidenced by the company`s performance testing conducted by independent, third-party examiners.
Extensive Field Services
Ana-Lab offers a complete sample collection service throughout the United States and Mexico.
Our eight service centre facilities located in three states provide superior on-site customer services and quality laboratory service to customers throughout the United States.
Our Rio Grand Valley service centre in Brownsville, Texas, serves customers in Mexico.
Hazardous Waste
Ana-Lab can accommodate all of your solids and solid waste management requirements. These testing services include metals analysis, semi-volatile and volatile organic constituents, oil and grease and chloride content. Ana-Lab is certified in a number of states and with the EPA in order to accommodate all of your hazardous waste characterization requirements. These testing services include RCRA heavy metals, Extractable and Volatile organics, Reactivity, Corrosivity, Ignitability, TCLP and SPLP analysis.
Hazardous waste presents immediate or long-term risks to humans, animals, plants, or the environment. It requires special handling for detoxification or safe disposal. In the U.S., hazardous waste is legally defined as any discarded solid or liquid that:
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contains one or more of 39 carcinogenic, mutagenic, or teratogenic compounds at levels that exceed established limits (including many solvents, pesticides, and paint strippers)
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catches fire easily (such as gasoline, paints, and solvents)
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is reactive or unstable enough to explode or release toxic fumes (including acids, bases, ammonia, and chlorine bleach); or
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is capable of corroding metal containers such as tanks, drums, and barrels (such as industrial cleaning agents and oven and drain cleaners)
Businesses such as metal finishers, gas stations, auto repair shops, dry cleaners, and photo developers produce many toxic waste products. These by-products include sulphuric acid, heavy metals found in batteries, and silver-bearing waste, which comes from photo finishers, printers, hospitals, schools, dentists, doctors, and veterinarians. Heavy metals, solvents, and contaminated wastewater result from paint manufacturing. Photo processing also creates organic chemicals, chromium compounds, phosphates, and ammonium compounds. Even cyanide can be a by-product, resulting from electroplating and other surface-treatment processes.
If you think industry is the only source of hazardous waste, you may be surprised. There is hazardous household waste as well. For example,
- automotive products, such as gasoline, antifreeze, and batteries
- oil-based paints and thinners
- pool chemicals
- pesticides, herbicides, and other garden products
- household cleaning products
Ana-Lab Corp. assists clients involved in litigation with laboratory analysis, testing, and consultation. Our staff of qualified and experienced chemists can provide expert testimony and analysis to back up a client`s claim.
Expert Witness
Our scientific staff also serve as expert witnesses in many major legal cases. Our experts have a diverse background in polymer, inorganic, organic and analytical chemistry. We will approach your problem with a broad perspective based on our technical training, research in academia and experience in industry.
