The Environment Laboratory (EVL)- LEAF is furnished with state- of- the- art equipment for the extraction/digestion, analysis and identification of a vast array of inorganic and organic chemicals. EVL -LEAF applications ranges from identification of contaminants in different environmental matrices (e.g. water, waste water, soil, compost.), food and agri food products (raw, processed and canned), and non-edible oil analysis (such as gasoline, diesel and industrial oil), to food chemistry and microbiology such as nutritional labeling, pesticides residues, heavy metals, colorants, allergens, and aflatoxins. EVL-LEAF services also cover pharmaceutical products, occupational and public health research and diagnostic medical services such as organic acids, trace and heavy metals, tobacco & tobacco metabolites (nicotine, cotinine, 1-HOP) and exposure to specific organic pollutants and its metabolites in biological specimens (hair, semen, blood, urine, teeth and body fluids).
EVL-LEAF major instruments include:
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Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS 7500ce)
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High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HP1100): with 1100 Fluorescence Detector for multiwave detection (FLD ) ; Post Column Derivatisation; and Evaporative Light Scattering Detector.
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HPLC-MS-MS with ESI Probe & APcI Probe (Waters-Simed)
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Gas –Chromatograghy-Mass Spectrometry (HP 6890)
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Purge and Trap Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry MSD 5972 series ( P & T-GC-MS).
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Gas Chromatography HP 6890 with Electron Capture Detector. Chromatography with FID/NPD (Thermoquest AS 2000)
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Elemental Analyzer (Total Nitrogen, Total Carbon, Total Organic Carbon, Total Sulfur, Total Hydrogen and Total Oxygen)
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HP 8453 UV Spectrophotometer
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ETHOS 1 Advanced Microwave Digestion System
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Automated Gel Permeation Chromatography-Solid Phase Extraction
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Freeze Dryer
The laboratory provides testing services on numerous sample matrices, including the following:
- Drinking water
- Waste water
- Ground & Surface water
- Soil
- Hazardous wastes
- Sludges
- Leachates
- Compost
- Food
- Drinks (such as wine, arak, whisky)
- Beverages
- Drugs
- Biological tissues
- Alloys
- Stones
- Rocks
- Others
Tests