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	Experts in environmental testing, sampling, and monitoring of water, wastewater, soil, waste, and air using EPA, MDEQ, NPDES, SDWA, and RCRA test methods. We specialize in industrial surveillance, process troubleshooting and quality control. Our laboratory has the equipment and staff to deliver the quality and service you expect without delay. No excuses. Call us. Better solutions through better chemistry.	State of the art equipment ICP-MS Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometer ICP-AES (2) Inductively Coupled Plasma - Atomic Emission Spectrometers GC-MS (6) Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometers GC (6) Gas Chromatographs with FID, ECD, NPD detectors HPLC High Performance Liquid Chromatograph with UV/VIS, ELCD, Fluorescence, RI detectors IC Ion Chromatograph (Chemical Suppression) AFS Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometer CFI Continuous Flow Analyzer (Multi-channel) SFA Segmented Flow Analyzer (Discrete) FIA Flow Injection Analyzer Available Cyanide by Flow Injection, Ligand Exchange, and Amperometry CVA Cold Vapor Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer with Reduction Vaporization FTIR Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer UV/VIS Diode Array Scanning Spectrophotometer ASE Accelerated Solvent Extraction System (pressurized fluid extraction) U.S. EPA Certified for: Microbiology Full Certification E.coli Bacteria Enumeration of E.coli Heterotrophic Plate Count Organic Chemistry Full Certification Total Trihalomethanes Regulated and Unregulated Volatile Organic Chemicals Regulated and Unregulated Synthetic Organic Chemicals Regulated and Unregulated Inorganic Chemicals 2,4,5-TP (Silvex) 2,4-D Alachlor Aldrin Atrazine Benzo(a)pyrene Butachlor Butylbenzylphthalate Chlordane Dalapon DBCP Dibromochloropropane Di(2-ethylhexyl)adipate Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate Dicamba Dieldrin Dinoseb EDB Ethylene dibromide Endrin Heptachlor Heptachlor Epoxide Hexachlorobenzene Hexachlorocyclopentadiene Lindane Methoxychlor Metolachlor Metribuzin Pentachlorophenol Picloram Propachlor Regulated VOCs Simazine Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs) Toxaphene Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) screening Unregulated VOCs Inorganic Chemistry Full Certification Bromide Cyanide Fluoride Nitrate Nitrite Sulfate Antimony Arsenic Barium Beryllium Cadmium Chromium Copper Lead Mercury Nickel Selenium Sodium Thallium Total Organic Carbon
	38 drinking water tests in 2 days for only $49 Is your water safe? The U.S.EPA recommends regular testing of your drinking water by a certified laboratory. We have the sophisticated laboratory equipment and trained professionals for the job. You can trust our degreed professional chemists. They average over 25 years of chemical testing experience! Especially designed for homeowner's water, well water, and drinking water, we'll test for Bacteria, Ions, Heavy Metals, and Minerals for a great price and do it FAST. Our combination of quality, number of tests, turnaround, and price is unmatched anywhere. We don't cheap out on personnel or equipment either, using only top of the line, state of the art analytical testing equipment for your samples. Click on the link above for more details and how to order. Click here for testing water used in brewing beer!
	Hop testing Hops are a primary ingredient in beer that provide important flavor, fragrance, and bittering properties. With the recent explosion of microbreweries in Michigan, KAR Laboratories was asked to provide the testing needed by hops growers. We can test Alpha acids, Beta acids, Cohumulone, Colupulone, and Moisture using High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC) which provides superior quantitation, sensitivity, and additional speciation. We can also test for Alpha acids, Beta acids, and Hop Storage Index (HSI) using our Diode Array Scanning UV/VIS Spectophotometer. Available June 1 will be the Hop Oils test. American Society of Brewing Chemists (ASBC) analytical methods are used exclusively and we subscribe to monthly blind QC samples to make sure our results are correct. Our laboratory's turnaround time during the critical harvest season provides your report the next business day.
	Brewers! Chemistry Analysis of Water used in Brewing Beer Brewers need to control Carbonate - Bicarbonate (Total alkalinity), Sodium, Calcium, Chloride, Sulfate, and Magnesium as well as contaminants such as heavy metals, bacteria, nitrate, fluoride, etc. We have the perfect water test kit for just that purpose! CLICK HERE
	Chlorinated Paraffins testing Here's another test that our laboratory developed arising from the needs of our clients. Like the EDTA test above, KAR Laboratories may well be the only laboratory in the country to offer this unique service for environmental samples (water, wastewater, soil, wastes, etc.), as the published literature tends to focus on toxicity in animals. By calibrating the GC-MS in three ranges of C10-C13, C14-C17, and C17-C30, our test method allows a very wide range of compounds to be detected and quantified.
	EDTA testing EDTA is an important compound of massive worldwide use. The very property that makes EDTA commercially valuable - its ability to bind with metals - also causes it to dramatically enhance the mobilization of heavy metals into groundwater. Wastes containing EDTA expedite the migration of toxic heavy metal contaminants into the groundwater aquifer at an alarming rate. EDTA testing is a critical component in determining the path of heavy metal contaminants and if your operation uses or has used EDTA, you should take a careful look at the ultimate fate of your waste stream. Our laboratory has developed an analytical method for determining EDTA in water, groundwater, soil, and waste that's not available elsewhere.
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