EPA's Region 6 Office
Serving: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and 66 Tribal Nations
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The staff at the Houston Laboratory is often asked to "referee" laboratory results when conflicting data are reported from two or more laboratories analyzing the same sample. Often we will reanalyze the sample and serve as an impartial source of analysis of the data in question.
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Abbreviated Microwave Extraction of Pesticides and
PCBs in Soil
A Comparison of Closed Vessel Microwave Digestion
versus Conventional Digestion
Application of Small Scall Extractions to Large Volume Injections for Environmental GC/MS Analysis
Automated Liquid-Liquid Extraction of Semi-volatile Analytes
Improved Quantitation of Semi-volatile compounds by Extracted Standards