Scott Specialty Gases collaborates with Environmental Resource Associates, a Waters subsidiary, to provide a comprehensive air and emissions proficiency testing (PT) programme
Scott will team with Environmental Resource Associates (ERA) to provide volatile organic standards for methods TO-14 and TO-15 that will complement ERA's common air and emissions PT standards.
ERA will sell the standards and administer the proficiency testing studies for industrial and contract environmental laboratories responsible for air and emissions testing performed in compliance with federal and state statutes.
Proficiency testing is widely employed by analytical laboratories testing soil, water and waste-water samples.
US State and federal regulations require the use of PT standards to demonstrate the accuracy of the analytical measurement process.
Until now, the enforcement of air and emissions proficiency testing requirements has been slowed by the lack of a single PT provider with the capability and the expertise to provide all the required standards and administer the PT studies.
Together, ERA and Scott Specialty will fill this void by allowing labs to source the standards and implement regulated air and emissions PT programme under the auspices of a single PT provider.
"Air proficiency testing is something that analytical laboratories, regulators and end users have been requesting for some time and Scott is the perfect partner to provide the volatile gas standards for this new program," offered Carl Craig, president of ERA.
"This air programme allows us to provide a more comprehensive suite of PT standards and studies to our customers".
Speaking for Scott Specialty Gases, Joe Munley, regional vice president stated: "The unique nature of blended gas standards to the exacting specifications of a PT programme requires a very high degree of technical capability and experience.
"Since Scott is the sole provider of Nist SRM gaseous candidates for this industry, producing PT standards is a natural extension of our capabilities for providing high quality gas mixtures."
