Lead and Other Metals

Schneider Laboratories has a comprehensive metals department capable of running a wide variety of environmental and industrial hygiene sample types. With its top notch personnel and state of the art Perkin Elmer instrumentation, Schneider Laboratories is able to run samples on Flame AA with high sensitivity nebulizers, graphite furnace with Zeeman background correction or ICP with axial/dual view plasma. Our laboratory is able to give the highest quality analytical results with quick turnaround times and low detection limits which places Schneider Laboratories on the cutting edge of metals analysis going into the new millennium.

Details of analyses offered by The Metals Department

Air filter metals samples are analyzed by methods based on NIOSH 7082, 7048, 7024, 7030, 7300, and other NIOSH Methods. OSHA ID-121 Method is used for analytes not cited by NIOSH methods.

TCLP metals samples are processed in accordance with EPA SW-846 Method 1311 and the appropriate EPA 6010B or 7000-series for metals analysis.

Solid metals samples are analyzed by EPA 6010B, 7420, or other 7000 Series Methods coupled with EPA 3010A, 3020A, or 3050B Digestion Methods.

Water samples for metals are analyzed by EPA 200-series methods.