The ALS laboratory in Waterloo provides reliable and accurate analytical testing services to support the highly-regulated Ontario marketplace. This full-service laboratory offers complete support to the Greater Toronto Area, with depot centres in London, Mississauga, Ottawa, and Richmond Hill.
Our technical professionals specialize in remediation, routine monitoring and drinking water testing services. In addition to the routine analyses, our innovative chemists have expanded our capabilities to analyze for water soluble organics such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products, and we recently have introduced air quality testing. ALS realizes that in order to remain as the true industry analytical leader, we must respond to the market demands for innovative analytical solutions to meet those ever changing environmental challenges.
Over the past year, our lab has seen a significant demand and growth of PFAS analysis. PFAS has a favourable recommended hold time suitable for shipping out of province for analysis, and the reduced sample size (60 mL) ALS offers for standard analysis lowers the cost of shipping significantly. We offer a subsidized shipping fee for Canadian PFAS work from across the country, convenient locations for sample drop off, and local courier service available at many of our locations. We also support the testing required to comply with current Canadian requirements such as the BC CSR Regulation, Health Canada proposed Guidelines, and Federal Environmental Quality Guidelines.
Supported
Waterloo Laboratory Capabilities
- ICPMS and ICPOES Metals
- Mercury by CVAA
- TCLP/SPLP Metals/Inorganics
- General Wet Chemistry
- Major anions
- Cyanide
- GC/MS Volatiles: BTEX, Chlorinated VOCs, etc.
- GC/MS Semi Volatiles: PAH, Phenolics, Phthalates, PCBs, Pesticides, etc.\
- GC/ECD: PCBs in Oil
- Hydrocarbons: CCME, O.Reg 153.04 (F1-F4)
- TCLP/SPLP Organics
- Methane, ethane, ethene (water and air)
- Air testing (thermal desorption)
- Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products
- Perchlorate, Bromate
- Nonyl phenols and ethoxylates
ALS has been offering a suite of 28 PFAS compounds, however we continue to innovate and improve in our capabilities. The TOP Assay method was added to our scope in 2017 to expand our service offerings suitable to a variety of different client needs. More recently, method improvements and the investment in a brand new ultra-sensitive PFAS-dedicated Liquid Chromatography Triple Quad, we have been able to lower our standard reporting limits and added four new compounds, expanding our suite to a total of 32:
- Dodecafluoro-3H-4,8-dioxanoate (ADONA)
- Perfluorononane sulfonate (PFNS)
- 9-Chlorohexadecafluoro-3-oxanonane-1-sulfonate (F53B major)
- 11-Chlororeicosafluoro-3-oxaundecane-1-sulfonic Acid (F53B minor)
Further advancements to be added by late fall/winter 2019
- Perfluorohexadecanoic acid (PFHxDA)
- 2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoro-2-(heptafluoropropoxy)propanoicacid (GenX)
- Perfluorododecane sulfonate (PFDoS)
- Perfluorooctadecanoic acid (PFOcDA)
- 2-Perfluorohexyl ethanoic acid (6:2) (FHEA)
- 2-Perfluorooctyl ethanoic acid (8:2) (FOEA)
- 2-Perfluorodecyl ethanoic acid (10:2) (FDEA)
- 2H-Perfluoro-2-octenoic acid (6:2) (FHUEA)
- 2H-Perfluoro-2-decenoic acid (8:2) (FOUEA)
- 2H-Perfluoro-2-dodecenoic acid (10:2) (FDUEA)
- Dedicated Account Managers
- Pre-Printed CoC Forms
- Pre-Labelled sample containers
- Flexible report styles
- Customized EDD
- WebtrieveTM Online Data Access
- Weekend sample receipt
- Dependable and Professional Staff
- Service centres located in Mississauga and Richmond Hill
- Delivery and pick-up services