Water Damage and Building Occupant Exposure Risks
EMSL Analytical provides laboratory testing services, sampling supplies, test kits, building inspection tools, air monitoring instruments, and personal protective equipment to identify and mitigate contact with mold, bacteria, and other issues.
Cinnaminson, New Jersey, March 28, 2025
Water damage indoors can result in the destruction of building materials, equipment, furniture, and belongings. In some cases, it could even cause structural damage. Water damage can also create an indoor environment that could be hazardous to building occupants.
Depending on the water source, it could contain bacteria, viruses, mold, chemicals, and more. Even water damage due to clean water, known as Category 1 Water, can result in mold growth in as short as 24 to 48.......[Read More]
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Water Damage and Building Occupant Exposure Risks
EMSL Analytical provides laboratory testing services, sampling supplies, test kits, building inspection tools, air monitoring instruments, and personal protective equipment to identify and mitigate contact with mold, bacteria, and other issues.
Cinnaminson, New Jersey, March 28, 2025
Water damage indoors can result in the destruction of building materials, equipment, furniture, and belongings. In some cases, it could even cause structural damage. Water damage can also create an indoor environment that could be hazardous to building occupants.
Depending on the water source, it could contain bacteria, viruses, mold, chemicals, and more. Even water damage due to clean water, known as Category 1 Water, can result in mold growth in as short as 24 to 48.......[Read More]
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Canadian Ban on PCBs in Existing Light Ballasts Takes Effect Soon
EMSL Analytical provides laboratory testing services, sampling supplies, and personal protective equipment to identify and mitigate exposure risks to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other hazardous materials.
Mississauga, Ontario, March 27, 2025
While the manufacture, process, import, and offer for sale of PCBs have been prohibited in Canada since 1977, a ban on existing light ballasts and various other electrical equipment that contain PCBs takes effect on December 31, 2025. According to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC):
PCBs in electrical equipment are in oil form, and were used as an insulating fluid for transformers and capacitors. They were also added to paints, caulking, sealants and asphalt, since they do not corrode.......[Read More]
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Costly Fine for a Washington Employer that Allegedly Exposed their Truck Mechanics to Asbestos
EMSL Analytical offers laboratory testing services, sampling supplies, test kits, air monitoring instruments, and personal protective equipment to safeguard workers and the public, and to help companies comply with health and safety regulations.
Seattle, Washington, March 25, 2025 Last month, the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) announced that an employer of truck mechanics at a facility in Spokane must pay a $231,000 fine for exposing their workers to asbestos. L&I claims that when a 60-year-old building was purchased by the company to renovate for use by their mechanics, the company began renovations without first getting it tested for asbestos. According to the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries:
When it was.......[Read More]
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World TB Day and Infection Control Resources to Help Prevent New Cases
EMSL Analytical offers highly sensitive PCR testing methods to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other pathogens from environmental samples to protect patients, healthcare providers, and the public.
Cinnaminson, New Jersey, March 24, 2025 World TB Day is recognized each year on March 24th. It is a time to raise awareness of tuberculosis (TB) and to encourage efforts to end this pandemic that has taken countless lives over the years. In just the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that as recently as 2023, there were 9,633 reported TB cases. This marks the third year in a row that the agency has reported higher numbers. The CDC also estimates up to 13 million people in this country are.......[Read More]
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Governor Announces Emergency Rule Lowering the Lead Poisoning Threshold
EMSL Analytical provides environmental, material, and industrial hygiene testing services, sampling supplies, and test kits to identify lead hazards from air, soil, paint, dust, water, and other types of samples to protect children, families, and workers.
Cinnaminson, New Jersey, March 20, 2025
Earlier this year, Governor Tony Evers of Wisconsin approved a new emergency rule to combat lead poisoning statewide. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) emergency rule lowers the lead poisoning threshold to 3.5 µg/dL. By lowering the lead poisoning threshold, more children and families are eligible for lead poisoning and intervention resources. Lead poisoning is considered to be an entirely preventable environmental disease, but even with this knowledge, there are many.......[Read More]
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Vermont Department of Health Issues Health Advisory for Legionnaires’ Disease
EMSL Analytical offers rapid PCR and traditional culturing methods to analyze environmental samples for Legionella, the microbial pathogen that causes Legionnaires’ disease and Pontiac fever.
Cinnaminson, New Jersey, March 18, 2025
The Vermont Department of Health (VDH) issued a Health Advisory earlier this year to health care providers after an outbreak of six cases of Legionnaires’ disease was detected in Windsor County. The cases were associated with an independent and assisted living apartment complex. According to the VDH advisory:
Legionella can be found in natural, freshwater environments, but generally is not present in sufficient numbers to cause disease. In human-made water systems that are not properly.......[Read More]
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