Water
Water quality is a vital aspect of global importance and determining its organic and inorganic components is crucial. Our laboratories provide the possibility defining contaminant species in water of various kinds, within the group of organic contaminants called emerging and the group of anionic and cationic inorganic species that allow evaluating an important part of their quality.
The existence and permanence of some contaminating organic species such as the "emerging contaminants" has its origin in the water cycle, which interact in different environmental periods and human activities, and is where the alteration in its quality occurs. The wastewaters (urban, industrial and agricultural or animal wastes) are the most common reason of contamination. Emerging contaminants are substances chemicals or synthetic/natural microorganisms that are not commonly controlled in the environment, but have the potential to cause, known or suspected, adverse effects on both ecology and human health. The release of these emerging contaminants in the environment which has occurred for a long time has not been previously evaluated until new detection methods were developed.
Our laboratories perform emerging contaminants analysis in water samples of various kinds. Among the prominent compounds are surfactants, food additives, antioxidants, flame retardants, plasticizers, industrial solvents, disinfectants, PAHs, pesticides and household insecticides, and pharmaceuticals products. For their analysis we use extractive techniques (LLE, SPE, SPME), derivatization and coupled chromatographic techniques (GC/MSD, LC/MSD). Additionally, our laboratories provide the possibility to analyze the content of organic and inorganic species (cationic and anionic) by extractive and cleanup (SPE) techniques together with ion chromatography LC-Conductivity and chromatography reverse LC-DAD phase.