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Laboratory Contamination - Genium Publishing …
Genium Publishing CorporationCHAPTER 9 Laboratory ContaminationLaboratory Contamination is defined as the inadvertent addition of target analytes tosamples during the sample collection, transportation and analysis process. Just like theadage that the best place to catch a disease is in the hospital, the best place to find anenvironmental pollutant is in an analytical Laboratory . Contamination manifests itself inthe detected presence of target analytes in the sample that are in greater amounts thanthey are in the native source of the sample. In 1994 EPA announced that all the ambientmonitoring data that had been collected for over 30 years in more or less pristine sitesin an ongoing effort to define the natural background levels of heavy metals wasunreliable due to Contamination in sample collection and analysis. Oceanographershave discovered in the last 10 years that historically determined ambient ocean metalslevels are heavily biased due to the presence of the metal hull of the ship used for theresearch.
Genium Publishing Corporation CHAPTER 9 Laboratory Contamination Laboratory contamination is defined as the inadvertent addition of target analytes to
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