Inorganic Testing

The State Hygienic Laboratory is accredited by several national accreditation programs to perform inorganic testing to support clients for the following sample types:

  • Clinical specimens
  • Food
  • Soil
  • Sludge
  • Water (drinking)
  • Water (surface)
  • Water (ground)
  • Water (wastewater)

Types of chemicals targeted for testing include:

  • metals and minerals
  • nutrients

 SHL utilizes a wide variety of analytical instrumentation including:

  • Capacity for Solid Analysis
  • Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES)
  • Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
  • Ion Chromatography (IC)
  • Nutrient Analysis 
  • Total Organic Carbon (TOC)