Trihalomethane (THM) Monitoring News
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Alfa Chemistry Unveils Expanded Assortment of Derivatization Reagents for Use in Gas Chromatography (GC)
The world’s trust-worthy chemical vendor Alfa Chemistry has recently announced the expansion of its assortment of derivatization reagents for use in Gas Chromatography (GC). This will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the field of analytical chemistry, offering researchers and scientists a wider range of options for improving the performance and sensitivity of their GC analyses. Gas ...
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Amerigo Scientific Distributes Highly Purified Human tRNA Reagents to Accelerate HIV Research
Amerigo Scientific, a distributor focused on providing critical products and services to biomedical and life science communities, achieves consensus with Bio S&T regarding the distribution of human tRNA reagents to further accelerate HIV research. RNA is most widely used as the primer of retroviral reverse transcriptases. The 3’ end of the transfer RNA binds to the complementary ...
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Use ECO Funnel® to segregate your waste streams
Now you can segregate your waste streams with color-coded ECO Funnels. https://www.calpaclab.com/eco-funnels/We offer both our Original and new EF2 ECO Funnels (8" models only) in four different lid colors to keep incompatible waste streams separate. While every organization has its own color-coding rules and preferences, proper segregation of hazardous waste is a requirement for all laboratories ...
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Toshiba wins contract for ozone treatment system at Chandrawal Water Treatment Plant in Delhi
Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation have concluded a contract with Larsen & Toubro Limited (hereafter L&T) for three ozone generators at the Chandrawal Water Treatment Plant in Delhi, India, being executed by Delhi Jal Board. This is one of the largest-scale ozonation systems for a water treatment plant in India. The project is funded by Japan International ...
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Offering a new level of enhanced, reliable protection
Offering a new level of enhanced, reliable protection against VOCs with the first 11.7 Cub personal solution from ION Science. In a 2018 report from the UN, it was revealed that a worker dies every 30 seconds due to exposure to toxic gases in the workplace. That such statistics still exist today is one of the reasons ION Science is working hard to create protective technologies for workers ...
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Identifying and Mitigating Occupational Exposures to Chloroform and Other Chemical Hazards
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) describes chloroform (CHCl3) as a colorless liquid that quickly evaporates into a gas. Other common names for chloroform include trichloromethane and methyl trichloride. Chloroform was once used as an inhaled anesthetic for surgeries; as an extraction solvent for fats, oils, greases and other products; as a dry cleaning spot ...
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Occupational and Environmental Exposure Risks to Chloroform and Other Chemicals in Puerto Rico
After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, leaving some of the islands’ residents without water, national headlines exposed concerns over the possible presence of chloroform and other industrial chemicals coming from a well that was temporarily put in use to provide drinking water during the recovery efforts. Chloroform (CHCl3) is as a colorless liquid that can quickly evaporate into a ...
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Chloroform and Potential Exposure Risks Discussed in New Online Video
Today the IAQ Video Network and Cochrane & Associates announced the release of their latest educational video. Their newest production discusses potential occupational and environmental exposure hazards associated with chloroform. “Chloroform has been used for many years in everything from medicine to a wide range of industrial applications,” said Paul Cochrane, President of ...
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Medora Corporation Selects Aqua Metrology Systems for Real-Time Water Quality Data and Predictive Analytics
Medora Corporation (Medora) and Aqua Metrology Systems (AMS) have teamed up to deliver a complete trihalomethane (THM) compliance solution for water utilities to manage harmful disinfection byproducts (DBPs). Medora, a market leader in THM removal spray aeration technologies with more than 200 installations, has announced that it will be using AMS’ online THM and THM Formation Potential ...
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AWWA announces winners of ACE17 Fresh Ideas Poster Competition
The American Water Works Association has announced the winners of its annual Fresh Ideas Poster Competition for students that took place during AWWA’s Annual Conference & Exposition in Philadelphia last week. The first place winner is Keerthi Palanisamy from AWWA’s Ohio Section for her poster entitled “Biofiltration of Chloroform in an Aerobic Trickle Bed ...
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LABVOLUTION 2017: SmartExtraction technology from Analytik Jena now available for manual extraction
The SmartExtraction technology of Analytik Jena AG is available from now on also for the manual isolation of nucleic acids. The Company made this announcement at this year’s Labvolution/Biotechnica trade fair, which is taking place from May 16 to 18 in Hanover, Germany. Only last year, Analytik Jena launched a global innovation in nucleic acid extraction with SmartExtraction. The modern ...
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Analytik Jena wins new product award for innovation in nucleic acid extraction at SLAS 2017
Analytik Jena's SmartExtraction global innovation was awarded this year’s New Product Award (NPA) yesterday at the SLAS International Conference and Exhibition in Washington D.C. With this prize, the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening annual meeting (SLAS) recognizes product innovations. Analytik Jena’s SmartExtraction technology competed against numerous product ...
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WWEM 2016 Lab Conference focuses on priority pollutants
Laboratory analysts from around the world will congregate in Telford (UK) on 2nd and 3rd November to focus on the testing, monitoring and analysis of water, wastewater and environmental samples. Featuring a wider range of conferences, workshops, demonstrations and an international exhibition, WWEM 2016 (www.WWEM.uk.com) will be even larger than previous WWEM events, which stretch back over eleven ...
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Compendium on analytical methods to enforce restrictions published
The compendium will be used in the ongoing REACH-EN-FORCE 4 (REF-4) project which is coordinated by ECHA's Enforcement Forum. In this project, enforcement authorities in 29 European countries inspect restrictions of 14 substances which may be found in consumer products, such as textiles, toys or jewellery or used professionally, for glues or brazing fillers. The inspections under the REF-4 ...
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Grain Handling Facility at Freeman, Washington Added to Superfund Cleanup List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added the Grain Handling Facility at Freeman, in Spokane County, Washington, to the Superfund National Priorities List. The site was added to the NPL after EPA considered input received during a 60-day public comment period following the site’s proposed listing in March 2015. “Ensuring that the health of students, teachers and workers in ...
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Which disposable cuvettes are Acetone resistant?
Disposable cuvettes are used in many labs where cross contamination of samples is a concern or where the cost of quartz or glass cuvettes is too high. Some disposable plastic cuvettes are not compatible with many common solvents, but the UV-Cuvette range from Brand offers excellent chemical compatibility, as well as high quality, in a disposable cuvette. The German manufacturer Brand have been ...
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Grain Handling Facility at Freeman, Washington Proposed to Superfund Cleanup List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to add the Grain Handling Facility at Freeman, in Spokane County, Washington, to the Superfund National Priorities List. The proposed listing includes a 60-day public comment period. “Adding the Grain Handling Facility at Freeman to EPA’s Superfund list underscores that more study and action is needed to further protect the health ...
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PAX Water Technologies Unveils In-Tank Aeration Install at San Jose Water Company
SAN JOSE, Calif. – October 16, 2014 – Richmond-based PAX Water Technologies and Sunnyvale-based Aqua Metrology Systems today unveiled the installation of an innovative in-tank aeration system at San Jose Water Company. The system, installed by Utility Service Group, is being deployed in a 12 million-gallon water storage tank to maintain high water quality during the ...
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GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines agrees to resolve risk management violation at Hamilton, Montana facility
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $172,900 to resolve a Clean Air Act violation associated with the company’s failure to submit a risk management plan at its facility at 553 Old Corvallis Road in Hamilton, Montana. Today’s agreement resolves the company’s alleged violation of the risk ...
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Atmosphere northern hemisphere has lower self-cleaning capacity than previously thought
Pollution is being removed more slowly from the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere than previously assumed. An international research team that includes researchers from Wageningen University established that the atmospheric cleaning agent hydroxyl (OH) is found in the same concentrations in the southern and the northern hemisphere. Until now, scientists had assumed that there would be more OH ...
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