Petroleum Hydrocarbons (PHC) Testing Services

PHC is a term used to describe a broad family of several hundred chemical compounds that originally come from crude oil. They are one of the most widespread soils contaminates in Canada. Because modern society uses so many petroleum-based products (for example, gasoline, kerosene, fuel oil, mineral oil, and asphalt), contamination of the environment by them is potentially widespread.  Everyone is exposed to PHCs from many sources, including gasoline fumes at the pump, spilled crankcase oil on pavement, chemicals used at home or work, or certain pesticides that contain PHC components as solvents.