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National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) 2020 Issuance of the Multi-Sector General Permit for Stormwater Discharges Associated with Industrial Activity Read More

ALS Australia provides environmental clients with two digital platforms that allow access to data and support ease-of-use interaction with the laboratory. Read More

ALS has recently expanded the scope of accreditation at our Wisconsin, USA laboratory to include a test for the detection of the novel coronavirus on surfaces. Read More

ALS Canada now provides a routine analysis service to test critical environmental surfaces for the presence and persistence of SARSCoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Test results are intended to help monitor and strengthen the effectiveness of disinfection and sanitation measures, particularly after outbreaks or positive tests in a business, care home, or public facility. Read More

ALS Environmental is preparing and planning for the 2020 Easter holiday period. Read More

The objective of environmental groundwater sampling is to collect a water sample that represents the composition of all mobile groundwater (GW) constituents in an aquifer, which may include both dissolved phase and colloidal materials that can migrate through the aquifer. Read More

Further to the earlier content published below, due to broader recent awareness that delayed filtration can cause severe negative bias of dissolved metals, BC ENV (the BC Ministry of Environment & Climate Change Strategy) has issued a requirement, effective May 1, 2020, for field filtration of all water samples that will be tested for dissolved metals (including mercury). Read More

This Enviromail has been re-released to announce that ALS is now NATA accredited for all methods under the US EPA’s Leaching Environmental Framework (LEAF), including methods 1310, 1313, 1314, 1315 and 1316. Read More

Each year, traditional environmental monitoring programs in Canada require the sacrifice of many thousands of fish that are killed and filleted prior to chemical analysis of muscle tissue for metallic contaminants. Read More

ALS Environmental Canada is introducing a new Organochlorine Pesticide (OCP) test method for waters, using state-of-the-art GC/MS/MS triple quadrupole instrumentation to achieve trace level detection limits with near-zero chance of false positives, using 100 mL sample bottles. This new method raises the bar for data quality over traditional test methods that use either single quadrupole GC/MS or GC/ECD (Electron Capture Detection). Read More