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Green Living Laboratory

Introduction

Green Living Laboratory (GL Lab) is accredited under the Hong Kong Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (HOKLAS) of the HKSAR Government (registration no. 039), providing a wide range of services in environmental analysis and product testing including:

  • Water
  • Sludge, Soil, and Sediment
  • Air
  • Plants, Animals and Food
  • Chinese Medicine

The detailed scopes are available on HOKLAS’s website.

Green Living Laboratory
Green Living Laboratory

Objectives

By assessing the environmental properties of samples supplied by client companies, Green Living Laboratory (GL Lab) aims to help Hong Kong enterprises comply with local and international environmental regulations, as well as assess the performance of innovative products.

Green Living Laboratory
Green Living Laboratory

Services

Green Living Laboratory
Green Living Laboratory

 

Green Living Laboratory is well equipped to conduct an extensive assortment of environmental analyses and tests on various products and substances, including:

Water


The Laboratory samples and tests water – including seawater, wastewater and water from cooling systems – for:

  • micro-organisms, eg, Legionella Pneumophilia, E-Coli, etc
  • non-metallic constituents
  • organic pollutants
  • toxic heavy metals

 

Such analyses can also serve as treatability tests.



Sludge, Soil, and Sediment


The Laboratory tests plants and animals, such as vegetables and marine creatures, for undesirable substances including:

  • non-metallic constituents
  • inorganics
  • trace metals
  • trace organics (VOCs and Semi- VOCs, pesticide residues)



Air


The Laboratory tests indoor air, ambient air and stack emissions for:

  • toxic gaseous pollutants
  • trace organics (VOCs and Semi- VOCs, pesticide residues)
  • suspended particulates
  • toxic heavy metals



Plants, Animals and Food


The Laboratory tests plants, animals and food, such as vegetables and marine creatures, for undesirable substances including:

  • heavy metals
  • pesticide residues



Chinese Medicine


The Laboratory tests proprietary Chinese patent medicines and herbal medicines in relation to the requirements specified by Hong Kong's Chinese Medicine Ordinance.


Instrument

NAME OF INSTRUMENT BRAND AND MODEL NUMBER
Gas Chromatography (GC) System 1) Agilent 7890A Gas Chromatography Equipped with 5975C Mass Selective Detector System
2) Agilent 7890 Gas Chromatography Equipped with Electron Capture Detector (ECD)
3) Agilent 7890A Gas Chromatography Equipped with Flame Ionization Detector (FID) and Thermal Conductivity Detector (TCD) System
4) Agilent 8890 Gas Chromatography Equipped with 7000 MS/MS System
Flow Injection Analyzer (FIA) System Lachat Quikchem Model QC 8500 Series II
Inductively Coupled Plasma/Mass Spectrometry (ICP/MS) 1) Agilent Model 7700
2) Agilent Model 7900
Ion Chromatography (IC) Thermo Ion Chromatography System
Liquid Chromatography (LC) System 1) Waters UPLC System equipped with Applied Biosystem API 4000 MS/MS system
2) Waters HPLC System
Purge & Trap System ATOMX, Teledyne Tekmar
Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyzer Analtik-Jena TOC Analyzer
Solid Wastes Analysis System 1) IKA C200 Calorimeter
2) Elementar vario MACRO CUBE Elemental analyzer
3) CKIC 5E-IRS II Infrared Sulfur Analyzer