Category Archives: PCBs

EPA POSTS SGS-DEVELOPED AND VALIDATED METHOD 1628 FOR PCB MEASUREMENT DRAFT FOR COMMENT

Aug 05, 2021 The US EPA has an interest in requiring higher levels of accuracy for PCB compliance testing to support National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) requirements. The EPA thus approached SGS to validate a new high-accuracy method for reporting individual PCB congeners by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The resulting PCB Method 1628 draft is […]

SGS LIVE PRESENTS “EMERGING CONTAMINANTS: A HISTORY OF CONCERN”

Sarah De Luca, the Business Development Manager for North American Environment, Health and Safety, Conventional Labs at SGS sits down with Dr. Bharat Chandramouli for our first ever SGS Live on Wednesday, March 24th at 1:00 PM EDT/10:00AM PDT. Their discussion, entitled Emerging Contaminants: A History of Concern, will examine the life cycle of contaminants […]

SGS Experts Offer Expertise on Emerging Contaminants at the Upcoming Virtual AEHS Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy

Two experts from SGS will share their knowledge on issues related to emerging contaminants with the virtual AEHS Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy audience, October 19-23. Dr. Bharat Chandramouli, Ph.D., SGS Environmental Laboratory Product Manager, North America, and Geoffrey Pellechia, SGS National Sales Manager, PFAS and Ultratrace, will be presenters at AEHS. A […]

Replacing Aroclor Methods with Congener-Based Approaches for PCBs

Summary SGS has developed and validated accurate, sensitive and accessible polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) analysis by GC-MS in support of the US EPA’s initiative to update the PCB measurement strategy for the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program. Background Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) are ubiquitous contaminants regulated under the US Clean Water Act. Currently, the […]