UNEP DATABANK OF LABORATORIES ANALYZING PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS
"POPS LABORATORY DATABANK"

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SUBJECT COMMENT
InstrumentationThe laboratory has recently acquired new equipment - 6890 GC/MS with chemical ionization - and is undertaking the validation of the methods for the analysis of some organochlorine pesticides and PCB by introducing EPA method 8720. New standards are being procured.
8321u03pfd|1010D1E6ADDITIONALS|COMMENT
8321u03pfdidval|199
8321u03pf8|0010D1E61973|UNEP_Labs|ADDITIONALS|COMMENT|04FB8721-16D1-4089-B704-7915B64D52A3
Costs to clientsPresently, the laboratory does not have a costing system for external clients since as a public institute it is providing services in contingency situations to Dirección de Ecología y Protección del Ambiente (DEPA) in DIGESA.
8321u03pfd|1010D1E6ADDITIONALS|COMMENT
8321u03pfdidval|200
8321u03pf8|0010D1E61973|UNEP_Labs|ADDITIONALS|COMMENT|EACF156D-B059-4B59-871E-076C1B79932C
HistoryThe present laboratory has been transferred from the ex-CEPIS-OPS with the aim to redesign it and install the equipment not only for the analysis of organic pollutants but also for inorganic analysis. It has got new chromatographs, which replace the old equipment.
8321u03pfd|1010D1E6ADDITIONALS|COMMENT
8321u03pfdidval|201
8321u03pf8|0010D1E61973|UNEP_Labs|ADDITIONALS|COMMENT|EF3209C7-4BC4-4585-AB99-D521F9F8DC91
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