Lab-based technologies for enviro analysis - CSIR
Lab-based technologies for enviro analysis - CSIR
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<strong>Lab</strong>oratory-<strong>based</strong><br />
<strong>technologies</strong><br />
by<br />
Andrew Pascall<br />
Manager: Environmental Analytical <strong>Lab</strong>oratories
Why use an accredited lab<br />
The Accreditation Act<br />
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Government Gazette<br />
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA<br />
Vol. 501 Cape Town 16 March 2007 No. 29712<br />
THE PRESIDENCY<br />
No. 238 16 March 2007<br />
It is hereby notified that the President has<br />
assented to the following Act, which is<br />
hereby published <strong>for</strong> general in<strong>for</strong>mation:–<br />
No. 19 of 2006: Accreditation <strong>for</strong> Con<strong>for</strong>mity<br />
Assessment, Calibration and Good <strong>Lab</strong>oratory<br />
Practice Act, 2006<br />
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Why use an accredited lab<br />
Accreditation certificates<br />
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Section 23 of the Act<br />
. (I) An accreditation certificate or certificate of GLP<br />
compliance issued in terms of<br />
section 22(2)(h),must be signed by the chief executive officer or<br />
a person with delegated<br />
authority lo do so in terms of section 19.<br />
(2) SANAS may authorise a person in the employ of SANAS to<br />
certify a copy of an<br />
accreditation certificate or a certificate of GLP compliance issued<br />
in terms of subsection<br />
[ 1) as being a true copy of the certificate.<br />
(3) In any legal proceedings, a document that<br />
purports to be a certificate issued in<br />
terms of subsection (1) or a copy of such<br />
certificate certified in terms of subsection (2)<br />
is upon its production evidence of the facts<br />
contained therein.<br />
(4) An accreditation certificate or certificate of GLP<br />
compliance is the property of SANAS and must be<br />
returned by an accredited body when requested to do so.<br />
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What does this mean to the user<br />
of an accredited laboratory<br />
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Scientific credibility<br />
and<br />
legal defensibility<br />
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The face of the Durban laboratory<br />
Durban analytical chemists, Gary Parsons<br />
and Gabriel Khumalo.<br />
Gabriel is the nominated representative<br />
tasked to communicate with SANAS on<br />
behalf of the Durban laboratories.<br />
http://www.csir.co.za/nre/<strong>enviro</strong>nmental_analytical_laboratories/<br />
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The Durban laboratory team<br />
http://www.csir.co.za/nre/<strong>enviro</strong>nmental_analytical_laboratories/<br />
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Durban capabilities, existing and planned<br />
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Methods currently accredited:<br />
• Nutrients in fresh and sea water (ammonia, nitrate and<br />
nitrite, nitrite and orthophosphate)<br />
• Dissolved metals in sea water (cadmium, cobalt, copper,<br />
lead, iron, nickel, manganese and zinc)<br />
• Metals in sediment and biological tissues by nitric acid<br />
digestion (aluminium, arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium,<br />
iron, manganese, nickel, lead, vanadium and zinc)<br />
• pH, salinity, chemical oxygen demand (COD), oxygen<br />
absorbed (OA) fluorides and TSS in water samples<br />
Planned :<br />
• Microbiological organisms in water, sea water and waste<br />
water samples<br />
• Organic chemicals such as pesticides, herbicides,<br />
pharmaceutical by-products and petroleum<br />
hydrocarbons.<br />
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Stellenbosch capabilities, existing and planned<br />
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Analysis of:<br />
• Arsenic, Cadmium, Cobalt, Chromium, Copper, Iron,<br />
Mercury, Manganese, Nickel, Lead and Zinc in<br />
sediments and soils<br />
• Arsenic, Cadmiun, Cobalt, Copper,<br />
Iron, Manganese and Zinc in aquatic biota<br />
• Dissolved Aluminium, Arsenic, Boron, Barium,<br />
Berylium, Calcium, Cadmium, Cobalt, Chromium,<br />
Copper, Iron, Potassium, Magnesium, Manganese,<br />
Molybdenum, Sodium, Nickel, Lead, Selenium,<br />
Strontium, Vanadium and Zinc in potable, ground and<br />
waste water<br />
• Electrical Conductivity, pH, Total Alkalinity and<br />
Chlorine in potable, ground and waste water<br />
• Elemental <strong>analysis</strong><br />
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State-of-the-art equipment<br />
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• One Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass<br />
Spectrometer (ICP-MS)<br />
• Two Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical<br />
Emission Spectrometers (ICP-OES)<br />
• An Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AAS)<br />
coupled to a Graphite Furnace Accessory (GFA)<br />
• Two Auto Analysers (AA), one a segmented flow<br />
and the other a flow injection instrument<br />
• A Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer/Flame<br />
Ionisation Detector (GCMS/FID)<br />
• A Liquid Chromatograph (Triple Quad) Mass<br />
Spectrometer (LCMS)<br />
• Freeze drier, ball mill, accelerated sample<br />
extraction and solid phase extraction systems to<br />
prepare samples<br />
• Sundry laboratory equipment<br />
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How can the laboratory add value to your organisation<br />
Per<strong>for</strong>mance measures <strong>for</strong> coastal<br />
municipalities:<br />
Blue Drop Status – Potable water<br />
Green Drop Status – Wastewater treatment<br />
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Blue Flag Status – Bathing and recreational beach<br />
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How can the laboratory add value to your organisation<br />
Blue Flag<br />
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A Blue Flag is an international award given to<br />
beaches that meet EXCELLENCE in the areas of<br />
safety, amenities, cleanliness and<br />
<strong>enviro</strong>nmental standards.<br />
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How can the laboratory add value to your organisation<br />
Blue Drop<br />
The Blue Drop System (BDS) is a regulatory tool<br />
used by the Department of Water Affairs to monitor<br />
the Status of Drinking Water Quality Management<br />
in South Africa.<br />
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Drinking Water Sample Analysis:<br />
The samples are required to be analysed in<br />
laboratories which are either ISO/IEC 17025: 2005<br />
accredited<br />
or DWAF-approved,<br />
i.e. take part in and can prove acceptable<br />
per<strong>for</strong>mance in inter-laboratory comparison<br />
schemes<br />
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How can the laboratory add value to your organisation<br />
Green Drop<br />
The Blue Drop System (BDS) is a regulatory tool<br />
used by the Department of Water Affairs to monitor<br />
the Status of Wastewater Treatment Plant Quality<br />
Management in South Africa.<br />
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Wastewater Sample Analysis:<br />
The samples are required to be analysed in<br />
laboratories which are either ISO/IEC 17025: 2005<br />
accredited<br />
or are DWAF-approved,<br />
i.e. take part in and can prove acceptable<br />
per<strong>for</strong>mance in inter-laboratory comparison<br />
schemes<br />
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Our existing customers<br />
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• Research funded internally & externally e.g.NRF<br />
and WRC<br />
• Transnet National Ports Authority<br />
• Transnet Capital Projects<br />
• eThekwini Municipality<br />
• Cape Metropolitan Council<br />
• Stellenbosch Municipality<br />
• Chevron<br />
• Mhlathuze Water<br />
• Sappi Saiccor<br />
• Durban Point Waterfront Management Association<br />
• National Regulator <strong>for</strong> Compulsory Specifications<br />
• WSP Consulting<br />
• Diageo SA<br />
• IIlovo Sugar<br />
•uShaka Marine World<br />
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Sampling<br />
The <strong>CSIR</strong> is able to assist with design,<br />
planning and execution of sampling and<br />
monitoring programmes<br />
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Summary<br />
You have heard about skills and expertise from some<br />
of our managers and senior researchers during the<br />
course of the morning<br />
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I trust this gives you a sense of how we are able to<br />
partner with or assist you in achieving some of your<br />
organisational goals and objectives.<br />
Thank you<br />
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