lead testing Articles
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No Changes Needed for LRRP Rule, Says EPA
A federally mandated review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s problematic Lead: Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule (LRRP Rule) has concluded that, despite the lack of an accurate lead paint test kit, the rule should remain the same. While acknowledging that “a lead test kit meeting the rule’s positive response criterion has not come to market,” the agency ...
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Comparison of Self-Primers: A customer lead field test
I call on numerous accounts weekly. A question that often arises is “Which pump is best?” While this certainly varies from application to application, I tend to like to see performance to make that determination. My experience in college football and 15 years of professional wrestling taught me that ‘talk is cheap’ and that true winners will shine in a competition. Last ...
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CPSC lead in products testing
Recent changes to the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) program on allowable levels of lead in products have prompted new rounds of testing. As a Manufacturer (or if you are anywhere in the Supply Chain for any product sold in the United States), you are responsible for monitoring and reporting the lead content in your product. There are threshold values of allowable lead in products as ...
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LEAD-BASED PAINT TESTING
Abatement Project Management ACC controls all factors of lead-based colour abatement tasks on our customer's part. The ACC venture manger screens the contractor’s actions to make sure conformity with OSHA rules. Once abatement is accomplished, the ACC venture administrator performs a visible examination and, if the place is going to be re-occupied with children, approval remove choosing. ...
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What Home Owners Need to Know About Lead Paint
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enacted a new rule for professional contractors in April 2010 to help keep small children safer from the dangers of lead dust exposure. If you live in a home built before 1978 and you’re contemplating any work that will disturb more than six square feet of painted surfaces inside the home or 20 square feet on the exterior of the home – for ...
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Lead safety for renovation - New EPA training requirements
The Lead Based-Paint Renovation, Repair, and Painting (RR&P) rule became effective June 23, 2008 and will be fully implemented on July 22, 2010. This rule is a federal regulatory program that applies to all renovations performed for compensation in target housing and child occupied facilities constructed before 1978. The RR&P rule includes pre-renovation requirements, as well as training, ...
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Wayne Taylor Racing is on Track to Keep Safe From Infection With AMETEK Land’s VIRALERT 3
Championship-winning Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR) has installed AMETEK Land’s VIRALERT 3 system to accurately and reliably detect signs of elevated temperatures in people at the team’s racing facility in Indianapolis, IN. World-leading temperature monitoring expert, AMETEK Land, has joined the sports car circuit in the U.S. with the installation of its VIRALERT 3 skin temperature ...
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Tandem LA-LIBS – All in One Solid Sample Analyzer
Dr. Rick Russo, Executive Chairman of Applied Spectra and a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, shares his thoughts on shifting trend in the world of chemical analysis towards reducing sample preparation and direct solid analysis instrumentation with higher detection sensitivity and expanded elemental coverage. In this article, he discusses the new paradigm for chemical ...
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World`s Most Advanced and Easiest to Use Sonic Water Level Meters
A common theme among drillers and environmental monitoring companies is the need to repeatedly measure water levels and until recently that meant constantly lowering and raising heavy measurement tapes. If you were lucky they wouldn't get stuck or break off leading to spoiled test results and expensive repairs. Eno Scientific has solved this problem by manufacturing the world's most advanced and ...
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New Field Test for Lead (Pb2+) in Soil
Field tests for the detection of lead in soil are not frequently accepted, since the tests are rather cumbersome or not reliable for screening determinations. Recently, we developed the LEADQuick field test kit for the detection of lead in water with 3 g/L sensitivity. This test is further modifiedto detect lead in soil with a sensitivity 0.03 g. We developed an extraction protocol using ...
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Engine Testing
Engine testing involves measurement of rotating speed and torque of the engine by applying load controlled by a dynamometer connected to its output shaft. HORIBA has developed various types of dynamometer for the purpose of engine testing. They are mainly classified into two types; one is absorbing only dynamometer such as hydraulic dynamometers and eddy-current dynamometers, the other is ...
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ISO 14001:2015 Update: Final Version Issued
In September 2015, the standard ISO 14001:2015, Environmental Management Systems – Requirements with guidance for use, was published. This is the final stage in the ISO 14001 revision process. This new version replaces ISO 14001:2004. However, there is a three year transition period. New in ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) requirements are now presented in a more ...
By SGS
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Minneapolis Offers Free Soil Testing to Raise Public Awareness of Lead Hazards
In 1998, the City of Minneapolis designed and implemented an innovative public outreach program to provide free access to soil testing for lead content to all Minneapolis residents. Soil testing kits were made available through local hardware stores, gardening centers and community groups. Citizens could either bring in samples to local merchants where city employees performed on-the-spot ...
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Desired characteristics of a thermal mass flow sensor - Part 2 of 2
This is part two of a two-part blog on Thermal Mass Flow sensors. In part one, we described the desired characteristics of a thermal mass flow sensor. In part two, we will discuss the operation of the 300 series flow sensor (Patent #6,125,695) and how its design addresses the desired traits. In our previous blog, we showed a cutaway of a thermal mass flow meter. Now let’s take an ...
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Testing laboratory, UK - Case Study
“I have recommended this system to other labs who perform this, and similar tests. We are more than satisfied with the build quality and engineering of the equipment – we work it hard, and it continues to deliver good results.” Company / Institution Testing laboratory, UK Product lines Parallel Evaporation Customer: Testing laboratory, UK This leading international ...
By BUCHI
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Water issues linger for residents after Olympics close
Rio De Janeiro - Helicopters were up at daybreak spotting rubbish flows at the Olympic sailing venue, with boats below collecting the debris. Dozens of barricades dammed up streams that flushed garbage into the bay. They caught waterlogged sofas, Styrofoam cups and deflated soccer balls. A sewer pipe at Marina da Gloria stopped raw sewage from being pumped into the harbor where Olympic ...
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Romax Consultancy Services Provide Reliability Solutions for European Rail OEM - Case Study
CAF MiiRA is a leading company in the design, manufacture and maintenance of railway wheelsets and their components. Currently, CAF MiiRA is the only manufacturer of wheels and axles capable of delivering the wheelset with a complete design: from the wheels, axles, axle boxes, and gearboxes. Mikel Oyarbide, Gearboxes Projects Engineer at CAF MiiRA, explains: “CAF offers comprehensive ...
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Motor Oil Moisture Matters
Welcome to Moisture Matters – the show where we take your everyday and not so everyday objects and test them to see which has more moisture. For Episode 5, we’re testing used motor oil against new motor oil. Which do you think will have more moisture? The Computrac Vapor Pro XL is a water specific, chemical free Karl Fischer alternative. It correlates well with Karl Fischer and ...
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Bioaccessibility tests accurately estimate bioavailability of lead to quail
Hazards of soil‐borne Pb to wild birds may be more accurately quantified if the bioavailability of that Pb is known. To better understand the bioavailability of Pb to birds, we measured blood Pb concentrations in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) fed diets containing Pb‐contaminated soils. Relative bioavailabilities were expressed by comparison with blood Pb concentrations in quail fed a Pb ...
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China to Increase Minimum Wage 2013 Standards
The minimum wage system in China is designed to protect the rights of workers and especially those on low incomes. The minimum wage standard is generally adjusted for monthly minimum wage and hourly minimum wage through regional legislation at least every two years. 26 provinces and cities in China have increased their minimum wage standards in 2013. Minimum wage is the lowest remuneration ...
By SGS
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