Environmental Services

Dioxin and Furan are the common names associated with polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs). Extensive research has concluded that exposure to dioxins and furans can result in biochemical and biological effects in animals and humans. Because these ubiquitous compounds accumulate in biological tissues, dioxins and furans have been in the environmental spotlight for over two decades.

Pace Analytical  provides dioxin/furan analysis in support of industrial compliance, federal regulatory/monitoring efforts, and the remedial activities of military and civilian engineering firms. Extensive experience with demanding projects and difficult matrices has forged a "culture of quality" that ensures precision, accuracy, and data integrity. Pace Analytical is a large, financially sound, nationwide analytical services company with modern facilities and instrumentation, significant dioxin capacity, and a commitment to on-time data delivery.

• Aquatic Toxicity / Bioassay

Through our locations in Asheville, North Carolina and Southeast Kansas, Pace Analytical offers both fresh water and salt water bioassay testing, and is certified and approved in states across the nation. The labs are also skilled in performing site specific toxicity studies. With this expertise, we are able to offer modified site-specific protocol, as well as approved EPA and State Methods. Tests include a broad range acute and chronic tests using a wide variety of fresh water and marine or estruarian species. 

• Air Sampling

Pace Analytical's Air Sampling Services were developed to assist industrial and public sector clients meet the increasing level of regulations covering air emissions. Through our Field Services Division, Pace Analytical offers a variety of air sampling services, including air pollution source testing and ambient air monitoring. Pace Analytical provides teams of experienced professionals to perform sampling for various criteria and non-criteria airborne pollutants, and can mobilize sampling teams to serve most areas of the country in a timely manner. We can set up long-term or short-term ambient air networks to monitor air pollutants, hydrocarbons, particulates, and meteorological conditions. Pace Analytical is proficient in a variety of sampling techniques, including passivated stainless steel (SUMMA™) sampling canisters. In addition, as needed, Pace Analytical staff fabricate many unique sampling trains to accommodate more specialized sampling situations.

• FTIR

Pace Analytical's Field Services Division has taken steps to utilize FTIR technology in the field to provide real-time, cost effective analytical results. By  working directly with leading scientists and MIDAC Corporation, a specialized FTIR manufacturer, Pace Analytical uses FTIR to collect real-time data for monitoring chemical constituents in air. Taking FTIR off the lab bench and into the field to measure process streams, stacks, indoor air and other emission sources using methods published by the EPA is an alternative approach to classical data collection techniques for compliance monitoring. 

FTIR technology is practical for analyzing stack emissions for defined hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) because it can analyze for multiple compounds simultaneously, provides immediate results, and works well for complex matrices. Data collected on-site is stored and can be retrieved later to search for additional compounds. A mobile laboratory is not necessary and there are no samples to collect or shipping charges associated with sending air samples back to the laboratory. In certain situations, FTIR may even replace some traditional stack testing methods.

• Air Toxics

Pace Analytical provides clients with analytical support for ambient air monitoring programs, source emission monitoring, landfill gas monitoring, soil gas characterization, as well as analytical measurements to satisfy requirements under state and federal government air monitoring programs. Laboratory personnel have extensive experience in air toxics measurements, and methods development; and our air sampling expertise gives us a higher level of in-lab knowledge. Certified clean SUMMA canisters and sampling media are among the many quality control mechanisms Pace Analytical employs to ensure that results accurately reflect the true sample. 

• Industrial Hygiene Services

Industrial Hygiene Services are essential to maintaining a safe and healthy work environment. Through our Indianapolis laboratory, Pace Analytical offers full industrial hygiene services to assist clients in meeting NIOSH and OSHA requirements across the country. The Indianapolis laboratory maintains a quality control program, including NIOSH PAT and NIOSH ELPAT. Pace Analytical's Industrial Hygiene Services include:- Air Organics

• PCB Congeners

Pace Analytical offers recently promulgated EPA Method 1668 for analysis of up to 209 PCB compounds at the congener level. This HRGC/MS method was developed to accurately quantify the risks associated with dioxin-like PCB congeners at previously unattainable detection limits. One application of this new method is the 503 regulations for land applied biosolids where dioxin and dioxin-like compounds must be tested by methods 1613 and 1668. Pace Analytical provides PCB Congener testing in support of: Biosolids Testing, Remediation, Decontamination, and Risk Assessment.

• Mobile Analytical Laboratories

Mobile laboratory services are provided through our Minnesota and New Orleans laboratories to clients nationwide. These services can range from screening techniques to full EPA method compliant data packages with full QA/QC and electronic deliverables. Pace Analytical mobile labs are staffed with highly trained personnel and equipped with the same state-of-the-art instrumentation as our fixed labs. Our mobile labs utilize agency approved methods or can incorporate more innovative techniques such as developing performance based methods or immunoassay technology. Pace Analytical mobile labs offer the added benefits of reduced project duration and significant overall project savings.