Exposure Assessment Planning

Ask the Expert Webinar Series
September 15, 2011
1:30 P.M. EST

Exposure assessments are conducted for a variety of reasons. The design of the strategy should be consistent with the underlying purpose of the assessment and how the resulting data will be used. Collecting samples without fully understanding how the results will be utilized and communicated can result in obtaining information that maybe misinterpreted or misleading. Prior to collecting field samples, it is necessary to clearly understand the purpose and objectives of sampling projects.

The purpose of the data collection, in conjunction with the availability and cost of field and laboratory analytic techniques, as well as the time sensitivity of the results, will determine the overall sampling strategy. This presentation provides a basic overview of the planning elements that are important to conducting a productive, cost effective and successful exposure assessment.

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Visit TestAmerica at the 2011 SAME Missouri River/ TEXOMA Regional Conference

August 23-25, 2011

Downtown Marriott

Kansas City, MO

TestAmerica has more than 20 years of technical and industry experience with the analysis of trace explosives and compounds unique to the military, supporting hundreds of special projects under various programs domestically and internationally.

TestAmerica provides analytical testing to assist with clean-up activities for a variety of clients, regulatory officials, and stakeholders from every segment of the Department of Defense, and is the nation’s:

• Only network with 13 DoD QSM Compliant laboratories
• First laboratory to receive USACE approval for Method 8330B in support of MRP
• First laboratory to be DoD ELAP accredited
• Leader in developing applications of Incremental Sampling Methodology (ISM) to an expanding range of chemicals of interest to the DoD.

Stop by Booth # 105 to learn more about TestAmerica’s:

• DoD ELAP accredited laboratories
• ISM expertise and capabilities - 8330B and beyond
• Methods for conventional explosives and the new insensitive munitions constituents

Sign up now for our free webinar on Insensitive Munitions Constituents on Thursday, August 25th at 1:30 P.M. EST.

Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products Challenges in Non-Conventional Matrices

Ask the Expert Webinar Series
August 18, 2011
1:30 P.M. EST


Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) represent a large subset of contaminants of emerging concern labeled as endocrine disruptors. The endocrine system is a balanced network of glands and hormones that regulates developmental activities such as growth, behavior, metabolism, intelligence, sexual development, and the ability to reproduce as well as many other functions. To date, many studies have characterized the PPCP contamination in rivers and lakes across the country, and as the effects of these contaminates are unfolding, researchers are looking beyond water ways for these chemicals.

TestAmerica continues to partner with public and private researchers looking for PPCPs as they pass from non-point sources into sensitive ecosystems. Our method development has expanded our PPCP testing capabilities into sediment and tissue samples to find these contaminants where endocrine disruption is occurring. Making the leap from testing water to more complex matrices requires solutions for increased matrix related interferences and extraction enhancements that effectively remove the target compounds from the sample. Our success with complex matrices is helping answer difficult questions where PPCP contamination may be lurking.

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