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Indianapolis Testing Laboratory Announces Client Appreciation BBQ & Laboratory Tour
EMSL Analytical, a leading provider of advanced environmental laboratory services, has recently announced their Indianapolis, IN laboratory will be hosting a client appreciation BBQ and laboratory open house on July 23rd, 2010. “EMSL Analytical"s Indianapolis, IN laboratory is a very well established full service laboratory that has been well rooted in the community for years” ...
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North Carolina’s First and Only Mold Testing Lab with two AIHA EMLAP Accredited Laboratories
EMSL Labs Provide Asbestos, Mold, Lead, IAQ, Microbiology and Food Testing in Raleigh, Charlotte and Kernersville, North Carolina. EMSL Analytical, a leading provider of advanced environmental laboratory services, has recently announced their Charlotte, NC laboratory has been accredited by AIHA EMLAP for mold analysis in addition to being already accredited by NVLAP for PLM bulk and TEM air ...
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Asbestos Analysis Laboratory Celebrates 30th Anniversary
EMSL Analytical, Inc., the world's leading asbestos testing laboratory is celebrating its 30th year of providing quality asbestos laboratory results to asbestos and environmental professionals worldwide. Opening in 1981 in Camden, NJ, in a small storefront building on Market Street, EMSL has now grown to over 39 locations throughout the United States and Canada. In addition to asbestos ...
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EMSL’s Denver Laboratory Awarded AIHA EMLAP Accreditation
The Denver, Colorado environmental testing facility has continued its busy expansion of services since opening their doors! EMSL Analytical, a leading provider of advanced environmental laboratory services, has recently announced that their Denver laboratory has been accredited by AIHA for microbiology analysis. The exciting news has quickly made its way to Colorado environmental ...
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Leading Asbestos Lab Experts Return From ASTM Johnson Conference
EMSL Celebrates 30th Anniversary our leading experts from EMSL Analytical, Inc. recently returned from The ASTM Johnson Conference. The conference sponsored by ASTM Committee D22 on Air Quality was held last week at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont. Objectives of the conference were asbestos monitoring, with emphasis on topics such as the current regulatory framework, risk ...
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EMLab P&K's San Diego Lab Celebrates 12th Anniversary, Supports San Diego County with Mold and Asbestos Analysis
EMLab P&K, a TestAmerica company and the leading commercial indoor air quality (IAQ) laboratory in North America, celebrates its San Diego, California laboratory’s 12th anniversary. For more than a decade, EMLab P&K has been serving the community throughout San Diego County with mold and asbestos analysis. In the past twelve years, the San Diego laboratory has analyzed nearly ...
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EMSL Analytical Acquires Midwest Laboratories as Strategic Growth Initiatives Continue
Midwest Laboratories’ asbestos samples are now being processed at EMSL Analytical’s AIHA and NVLAP accredited Chicago testing facility. Cinnaminson, NJ, September 7th, 2010 EMSL Analytical is pleased to announce that they have acquired Midwest Laboratories’ PLM and TEM laboratory operations. The announcement is part of EMSL’s calculated expansion plans for 2010 to ...
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Dusts Containing Asbestos can be found in Some Older California Buildings
Across California, asbestos was used heavily in many building materials up until the mid-1980s. If these asbestos containing materials are disturbed or become friable with age, the asbestos may become airborne and spread throughout a property. Eventually these asbestos fibers will settle and may contribute to dusts found in buildings. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ...
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iATL Is Now A Certified Laboratory With The Ohio State EPA’s Voluntary Action Program (VAP)
International Asbestos Testing Laboratories (iATL) announces certification with the Ohio State EPA’s Voluntary Action Program (VAP). The Ohio State EPA Voluntary Action Program was created to allow individuals to investigate possible environmental contamination and then if necessary clean the contamination to receive a promise from the State of Ohio that no further cleanup action is needed. ...
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Rebuilding after Hurricane Irene Reveals Asbestos and Lead Hazards
Current damage estimates from Hurricane Irene range from $7 to $10 billion. Countless homes and businesses have been damaged by wind, rain, tidal surges and flooding. In some areas the power has still not been restored making the cleanup efforts that much more challenging. As property owners and remediation professionals begin removing damaged and soaked building materials and belongings new ...
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Asbestos Siding on Homes May Expose People to Dangerous Asbestos Fibers
Many homes built between the 1930s and the 1970s were constructed using asbestos siding and shingles on the exterior of the property. Due to the material’s strength, durability and fire resistant properties it was a popular ingredient in both manmade shingles and siding products. Over time, these materials can become damaged and begin to degrade. When this occurs, cancer causing asbestos ...
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Textured Paints and Coatings May Expose People to Dangerous Asbestos Fibers
During the mid-1900s, textured paints and coatings were commonly used in many residential and commercial properties. Many of these buildings are still in use today. Unfortunately, a number of these materials contained asbestos. Textured paints and coatings were used for both decorative and protective purposes. Asbestos was added to these materials due to its strength and insulating ...
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Asbestos Contamination in Water Poses New Problems for Cleanup in Libby, MT
Tests of the waterways surrounding Libby, Montana show extremely high levels of asbestos, complicating a cleanup that has already cost $370 million over the past decade, reports the Great Falls Tribune. W.R. Grace & Co. mined asbestos-tainted vermiculite near Libby to make residential insulation until 1990. Now the area is one of the largest superfund sites in the nation’s history. An ...
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Pipe Insulation in Homes May Expose People to Dangerous Asbestos Fibers
Cinnaminson, NJ, October 15, 2012 Many homes built up until the 1970s were constructed using insulating blankets and paper tape on their steam pipes, boilers and furnace ducts that contained asbestos. Due to the material’s strength, durability, and insulating fire resistant properties it was a popular choice and was installed in many homes and buildings.� Over time, these materials can ...
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California Mall Faces Asbestos Abatement
LA Testing provides asbestos testing services to ensure construction and remediation projects across California do not cause indoor air quality (IAQ) problems from asbestos. During the busy holiday shopping season in December, a broken sprinkler pipe burst causing flooding at the Garden Walk Mall in Chico, California. Not only did the flooding from the broken pipe happen at an unfortunate time ...
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EMSL Analytical Receives Radioactive Materials License
The nation’s leading asbestos testing laboratory now offers services to analyze radioactive asbestos samples. EMSL Analytical is pleased to announce that they are now accepting samples for polarized light microscopy (PLM) for radioactive asbestos samples. The laboratory recently secured their Radioactive Materials License that allows the laboratory to possess these types of samples. ...
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Long After Structural Fires, Asbestos Hazards May Linger
Earlier this month, the Belleville News-Democrat published a report about a vacant property in Belleville, Illinois. The vacant parcel of land, located in downtown Belleville, used to be the location of two buildings that housed several businesses. In 2010, a fire destroyed the properties and they were later torn down. A year later, the article reports that the Illinois Environmental Protection ...
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Firefighters Exposed to Asbestos in their own Fire House
Firefighters knowingly risk everything to protect their neighbors and communities, and working inside the fire house would seem to be the least dangerous part of their jobs. Unfortunately, the firefighters inLackawanna,NY’s Fire House #3 discovered that staying inside their building may actually be more harmful than battling a fire. Earlier this month tests results indicated ...
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Southern New Jersey Flood Victims May Face A Variety Of Environmental Contaminants When Returning To Property
Powerful rainstorms have recently hit three counties in Southern New Jersey and caused flooding. Unfortunately, many of these property owners will face environmental contaminations when returning. Today, Federal and state agents will begin preliminary damage assessments in three South Jersey counties hardest hit by heavy rains and floods earlier this week. Cumberland, Salem and Gloucester ...
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Northeast Flood Victims May Face A Variety Of Environmental Contaminants When Returning To Property
Powerful rainstorms have recently hit the northeast and caused a variety of flooding in several areas of Western Massachusetts, Connecticut and Northern New Jersey and Northeastern Pennsylvania over the past 2 weeks. Unfortunately, many of these property owners will face environmental contaminations when returning. Tragically, flood waters have entered countless properties, ruined belongings ...
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