Lab
ALS Brisbane laboratory reflects the latest design and lay-out to provide for efficient sample processing, space for growth and diversification, and an improved testing environment, providing our customers with a better quality and faster turnaround service, as well as facilitating major projects or new testing requirements. Chemical, biological, physical, radiological and microbiological testing capabilities are available to the wider environmental industry including consulting, government, water, mining, waste, oil and gas, occupational hygiene and general industry sectors across Australia. Water testing and analysis including chemical, biological, radiological, pathogenic and microbiological testing solutions are provided to the greater water industry including all sectors from catchment and waste water to desalination and tap water. ALS is committed to providing a responsive and flexible analytical service to meet our customers needs, with the aim of exceeding expectations and establishing productive, long-term relationships.
Office hours
Sample hours
Supported
Environmental Testing and Analysis
- Acid Rock Drainage including Column leaches
- Acid Sulfate Soils – AVS, CRS and SPOCAS
- AOX (Adsorbable Organic Halides)
- Asbestos
- Bioavailable metals in Sediment
- Coal Seam Gas Testing
- Dioxins and Furans and co- planar PCBs
- Methyl Mercury
- Organics in Ambient Air by Canister
- PBDEs
- Pesticides & Herbicides to ppt levels
- PAHs to ppt levels in waters
- OCPs to ppt levels to meet ANZECC 99
- PFOS/PFOA, 6:2 FTS plus extended AFFFs
- Radionuclides
- Sizing and foreign material testing
- Snap Sampling Analysis Capabilities
- Soil Gas
- Speciated Arsenic and Selenium
- Trace metals in fresh and saline water
- Ultra Trace Inorganics and Organics in Sediment
- Ultra Trace Perchlorate and Explosives
- Ultra Trace VOCs and SVOCs
- Asbestos (including Air & Tapes)
- Diesel Particulate Matter
- Dusts (inspirable and respirable) including metals
- Indoor Air Quality (Canisters)
- PAHs and Pesticides in Air
- Respirable Crystaline Silica
- Swabs and Wipes
- VOCs in air
- Welding Fumes
- Ameoba
- Oil Mist
- Algal Toxins
- Bacteroides
- Blue Green Algae
- Cryptosporidium and Giardia
- Cryptosporidium Genotyping and Infectivity
- Challenge Testing of Treatment Plants
- Disinfection by-products
- Geosmin/MIB
- Haloacetic Acids
- Helminths
- Microbial Source Tracking
- Microtox
- NDMA and extended nitrosamines
- Pathogens
- Pesticides, Herbicides and PCBs to ppt levels
- Pharmaceuticals, Steroids and Endocrine Disruptors
- Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR)
- Radionuclides – Gross α & β, and Ra 226 & 228
- Sizings in water
- Trace metals in fresh and saline water
- Ultra Trace nutrients
- Ultra Trace Perchlorate and Oxyhalides
- Ultra Trace VOCs and SVOCs
- Viruses
- Data collection, telemetry, management and reporting
- Rainfall, weather and climate monitoring
- Water level flow and quality
- Remote Environmental Minesite Monitoring
- Instrument supply and operation
- Flood Warning Systems
- Waste Discharge Automated Monitoring
- Ambient air, dust and noise
Food Testing and Analysis
Nutritional Information Panel
- Energy
- Protein
- Fat – Total, Saturated, Trans, Monounsaturated, Polyunsaturated
- Carbohydrates – Total, Sugars
- Sodium
Pesticides
- Department of Agriculture
- IFIP Screen
- C3 Screen
- C5 Screen
- C6 Screen
Preservatives & Additives
- Sorbic Acid
- Benzoic Acid
- Sulphites
- Nitrites/Nitrates
- Inulin
- Maltodextrin
Other Nutrients
- Caffeine
- Total Dietary Fibre
- Cholesterol
- Omega 3, 6 and 9
- Vitamins
- Minerals
- Sugar Profiles
- Organic Acids
- Ethanol
Food Contaminants
- Heavy Metals
- Mycotoxins
- Aflatoxins
- Vomitoxins
- Ochratoxins
Other Services
- Meat Speciation
- Department of Agriculture
- Imported Foods Testing Scheme
- Export Control Testing
- Salt (as Sodium Chloride)
Plant Derived
- Gluten#
- Lupin
- Peanut#
- Sesame
- Soy#
Tree Nuts
- Almond
- Brazil Nut
- Cashew
- Hazelnut
- Macadamia
- Pistachio
- Walnut
Others
- Crustacean
- Egg
- Milk (Total)#
- Milk (ß-lactoglobulin)
- Milk (Casein)
- Sulphites
- Sulphur Dioxide
- Fish*
# NATA Accredited Matrix Dependant
* Based on cod fish detection on Northern Hemisphere fish and cross reactivity to other fish species
Typical Enumerations
- Standard Plate Count
- Yeast and Mould
- Pseudomonas species
- Bacillus cereus
- Coagulase Positive Staphylococcus
- Clostridium perfringens
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Lactic Acid Bacteria
- Coliforms, Faecal coliforms, E. coli
- Spore formers
Pathogens
- Salmonella
- Listeria
- Campylobacter
- Vibrio
- Enterobacter sakazakii
Other Services
- Shelf Life Trials
- Accelerated
- Shelf Life Trials
- Environmental Monitoring
- Potable and Process Water Testing
- Commercial Sterility
- Organism Identification