Brooks Rand Instruments products

In use at Brooks Rand Labs since 2006 and introduced commercially in 2007, MERX is the world’s first commercial automated analytical system based on US EPA Method 1630 for methylmercury analysis. Around the world, numerous national environmental agencies and leading universities have quickly embraced MERX as an easy-to-use, robust, and reliable system that delivers high quality data.

At Brooks Rand, we firmly believe that obtaining the highest quality data is essential, but we also recognize the necessity of operational efficiency. Our decades of trace-level mercury analysis experience have enabled us to develop a system that achieves both of these critical goals.

Increasingly stringent mercury regulations have made old analytical methods based on atomic absorption, such as EPA 245.1 and 245.2, obsolete. To comply with current wastewater discharge permit requirements, many environmental testing laboratories are upgrading their capabilities to satisfy the lower required detection limits by implementing EPA 245.7. This method uses an atomic fluorescence spectrometer, which is considerably more sensitive, has better linearity, and has a more stable baseline than an atomic absorption spectrometer.