Facilities | Laboratory - Equipment | Laboratory - Quality Control

Facilities

Green Analytical Laboratories is an independent environmental laboratory with facilities in Durango Colorado, Farmington New Mexico, and an associate laboratory in Hobbs, New Mexico. The laboratories are dedicated to the production of high quality, cost effective analytical services.

Durango Office:
Green Analytical Laboratories
75 Suttle Street Durango, CO 81303
Ph: (970) 247-4220
Fax: (970) 247-4227
Facility: 7500 sq. ft.

Farmington Office:
Green Analytical Laboratories
807 South Carlton Farmington, NM 87401
Ph: (505) 325 7272

Hobbs Office:
Cardinal Laboratories
101 E. Marland Hobbs, NM 88240
Ph: (575) 393-2326
Fax: (575) 393-2476 Website: www.cardinallabsnm.com
Facility: 7000 sq. ft.

We encourage Clients to tour the laboratory, so that they can see the dedication to quality and the systems that are in place to handle the clients' needs. A tour can be scheduled by calling the Laboratory Director.

Green Analytical Laboratories has made a substantial investment in its facilities and equipment to ensure that the clients' needs are met in a timely fashion, at a competitive price and with results that are of the highest quality possible. The Company abides by the complete instrument calibration and maintenance requirements specified by the various agencies and methods.

Laboratory - Equipment

Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP/MS)
- Perkin-Elmer ELAN 9000 ICP/MS, AS-93plus Autosampler
Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrophotometer (ICP)
- Perkin-Elmer 3000 Optima ICP/OES, AS-91 Autosampler
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometers (AA)
- Varian SpectrAA 220Z, GTA110Z Zeeman GFAA System
- Varian SpectrAA 220FS, VGA-77 Hydride System, SPS 5 Autosampler
- Perkin Elmer 5100 AA
- Perkin Elmer 5100ZL GFAA
Mercury Analyzers
- Perkin Elmer FIMS 400, AS-90 Autosampler
- Perking Elmer MHS
Gas Chromatographs (GC's)
- (2) Hewlett-Packard 5890 FID/PID
- Hewlett-Packard 5890 PID
- Hewlett-Packard 5890 FID/ECD
Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometers (GC/MS)
- (2) Hewlett-Packard 5890 GC, 5971 Mass Selective Detector
- (1) Hewlett-Packard 5890 GC, 5972 Mass Selective Detector
FTIR
- Perkin Elmer 1600 Series
Sulfur Analyzer
- LECO S-200

Laboratory - Quality Control

At Green Analytical Laboratories it is our goal to produce high quality data with precision and accuracy in a timely and cost effective manner. The quality assurance program executed in our laboratories ensures that every aspect of sample handling, analysis, and data reporting is done in a manner which complies with state accreditation authorities and individual client needs. Green Analytical is committed to continuous improvement of personnel and instrumentation and to providing a customized service for a diverse clientele.

Working Internal audits are performed once per year at a minimum and are designed to examine the laboratories' data quality, efficiency, safety, equipment maintenance, and record keeping. Laboratory technical directors track samples through each function of the analytical process to ensure that state compliance protocols and customer requirements are being satisfied. Teamwork among quality control directors, analysts, and technicians enable the internal audit program to serve as a successful method for improving all laboratory processes.

Green Analytical Laboratories participates in the State of Colorado's drinking water compliance program. Green Analytical's affiliate laboratory, Cardinal Laboratories, participates in the NELAC accreditation program as administered through the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Each program involves on-site audits, which are conducted once every two years at a minimum. In addition to external inspections, the laboratory performs Performance Evaluations (PEs) at a program specified interval, to ensure that the laboratory meets the frequency and quality criteria for each certification type, such as WS (water supply) for drinking water and WP (water pollution) for wastewater. Additional studies are performed on occasion as internal blind audits.

Standard quality control requirements include successful (method specific requirements) analysis of a prepared calibration curve, second source, blank, spike, and duplicate data for each data set as well as continuing calibration and blank verification for sample sets of twenty or smaller. This represents the minimum quality control requirements for a data set analyzed at Green Analytical, although some methods or clients call for more extensive sets of QC. A primary objective of both internal and external audit programs is to ensure that these quality control requirements are always acceptable based on our client's specific needs. For more information on quality control parameters, please feel free to contact Green Analytical Laboratories' management team or quality assurance director.