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Accreditattion Update
02nd April 2009
Tweed Laboratory Centre wishes to announce we have successfully obtained NATA accreditation for additional metals by ICP-OES. The list below details all of these elements. This will apply to the following matrices:
- Potable and domestic waters
- Water for irrigation and stock
- Waters for industrial and steam-raising purposes
- Sewage
- Trade waste
- Saline waters
- Estuarine waters
- Bore waters
- Ground waters
- Soils
- Biosolids
Elements:
Aluminium, Antimony, Arsenic, Barium, Beryllium, Bismuth, Boron, Cadmium, Calcium, Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Iron, Lead, Lithium, Magnesium, Manganese, Molybdenum, Nickel, Potassium, Selenium, Silver, Sodium, Strontium, Sulphur, Thallium, Tin Titanium, Tungsten, Vanadium and Zinc.
We have also received accreditation for Mercury by FIMS in all of the above matrices.
Related Links
These are links to some scientific and non-scientific web pages, the Internet Public library is particularly useful if you are into magazines, newspapers and general reference materials. Everybody wants to know about the weather but the remainder are rather specific to the function of the Laboratory.
National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA)