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Durban capabilities, existing and planned<br />

T0064<br />

T0093<br />

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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