What is contamination Testing?
Applied Technical Services’ contamination testing lab serves clients by determining whether the chemical purity of their product’s component materials has been compromised in any way by contaminating agents.
How to detect contamination?
How to detect it:
- Chemical contaminants are very difficult to detect.
- Viruses can be detected using ELISA, PCR, immunostaining and other similar techniques.
- Insects and arachnids may carry other harder to detect organisms.
- Parasites are also very difficult to detect.
How do you measure surface contamination?
Our most popular tests of surface contamination include:
- Abietic Acid (pine rosin) on wipes.
- Asbestos fibres on wipes.
- Dust for chemical identification.
- Glass fibres on wipes.
- Metals, including Lead, on wipes.
- Mold on tape lifts.
- Perchlorates on wipes.
- Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) on wipes.
What is contaminant analysis?
Contamination analysis can require a wide range of techniques to detect, identify and investigate contamination and extraneous matter investigations. Contamination can cause major disruption to your production or distribution and the correct analytical methods must be applied to achieve a rapid resolution.
How do you test soil for contamination?
Here’s How To Test Your Soil
- Using a spade or trowel, take small samples of soil from three to ten random spots in your garden.
- Thoroughly mix the soil in the container, taking care to remove any pebbles, leaves, or roots you might find.
- Mail the bag to your preferred testing site.
How do you test for contamination in cell culture?
Depending on the source of contaminants, you can detect cell culture contamination by using a light microscope, Gram stain, isothermal amplification, or PCR.
What is the first step you would take if you detect contamination?
The first step is to know what a contamination looks like. Some contaminants are clearly visible by eye, changing the color and the turbidity of your media. This may look something like when your cells are not attached to the plate but are floating in the media.
How do you determine cleanliness?
Cleanliness can be detected to 0.01 grams per square centimeter levels by using visual inspection, low power microscope inspection, wiping and visual inspecting, water break tests, atomizer tests, nonvolatile residue inspection, surface UV Fluorescence detection, tape test.
What is derived working level?
Derived working limits (DWLs) for surface contamination provide figures against which to assess the significance of measurements. Derived working limits for surface contamination were first established for use in the nuclear energy industry.
What are the types of contamination?
The three types of contamination are biological, physical, and chemical.
What is contamination simple?
noun. the act of contaminating, or of making something impure or unsuitable by contact with something unclean, bad, etc. the act of contaminating, or of rendering something harmful or unusable by the addition of radioactive material: the contamination of food following a nuclear attack.
What kind of testing is done for contamination?
Contamination analysis and identification is available for a wide range of products, chemicals and situations. For chemical and surface contamination, powerful trace contamination analytical tools are available through the Intertek laboratory network.
How is confidential rapid response contamination identification testing used?
Confidential rapid response contamination identification testing and analysis is a powerful tool used to solve contamination problems across a vast range of industry sectors. Contamination issues are unpredictable both in terms of their nature and their size, and as such can be costly in terms of lost productivity and hugely compromised timeframes.
How is Intertek used to diagnose contamination?
Intertek takes a forensic approach to identification of unknown particulates and formations in finished products and raw materials. Expertise includes type-matching analysis to trace the source of the contamination in a process as well as advice on sample packing and preparation.