Key Challenges Facing Environmental Analysis

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Volume 6
Issue 16

This article considers the key challenges faced within this changing arena and how environmental testing laboratories can strive to meet them.

Environmental testing incorporates a diverse range of applications from emissions and bioaccumulation to chemical exposure and human health. New contaminants such as endocrine disrupters, as well as waste evaluation and homeland security have also become important aspects of this growing sector. This article considers the key challenges faced within this changing arena and how environmental testing laboratories can strive to meet them.

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