Northeastern Environmental Laboratories Now Part of Microbac Laboratories

Sponsor: Baseline Testing for Natural Gas

To: Northeastern Environmental Laboratories, Inc. Clients

From: Microbac Laboratories, Inc.
RE: Laboratory Services

Effective May 17, 2012, Microbac Laboratories, Inc., a Pennsylvania-based company, has reached agreement with Northeastern Environmental Laboratories to service and support NEEL clients. Microbac will provide environmental, food and product testing for the NEEL clients through the local Scranton office, as well as our fully certified and accredited laboratories throughout the state.

While Microbac will facilitate expansion of the Scranton office, your contacts, John Scheatzle, Erin Zangardi and James Burton will continue to provide the personal service you have come to expect with the full backing of the Microbac network's enhanced certified testing capabilities.

We welcome the opportunity to have you as a client and are pleased to add to our national network a team of employees and a location that will ensure our ability to provide exceptional service and quality to you.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. In the meantime, to learn more about Microbac, our accreditations and services, please visit www.microbac.com. 

Sincerely,


Cherie Gudz
Senior Vice President
Microbac Laboratories, Inc.   
717-651-9700
cherie.gudz@microbac.com

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Microbac is one of the world's most diversified independent commercial testing and analytical networks, operating 25 locations nationwide. Celebrating over 40 years in business, Microbac offers comprehensive sampling and analytical services to a wide variety of industries. 

  Learn more at: www.microbac.com

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a. Chain of Custody
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c. An understanding of the parameters that you need, based on your conditions.
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What is Chain of Custody?


This is a legal term that refers to the ability to guarantee the identification and integrity of samples from collection through reporting of test results. For the purpose of litigation, it is necessary to prove the legal integrity of all samples and data as part of the chain of evidence. Therefore, it is necessary to have and accurate written history for the sample. This history should include sample bottle preparation, bottle possession, handling, and location of samples and data from the time of collection through reporting. This can be conducted by using chain-of-custody procedures.

“Since there is no way to know in advance which samples and data may be involved in litigation, you should always follow chain-of-custody procedures whenever samples and data are collected, transferred, stored, analyzed, or destroyed.”
Samples and data are considered to be in your custody when:
1. they are in your physical possession;
2. they are in your view, after being in your physical possession;
3. they are in your physical possession and then locked up so that tampering cannot occur; and
4. they are kept in a secured area, with access restricted to authorized personnel only.


The six steps in a chain-of-custody process include:
Step 1. Sampling Preparations- determing test parameters based on YOUR need - not just a cookie cutter list.
Step 2. Sampling Operations- short term/ long term
Step 3. Sample Transport
Step 4. Receipt, Storage, and Transfer
Step 5. Sample Analysis
Step 6. Procedures for Data (Reporting/Storage/ Management)

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