Brooks Rand Labs, LLC

Since 1982, Brooks Rand Labs has specialized in providing the highest quality trace metals analytical services. While many labs have just recently begun to offer methods for low-level metals determination, Brooks Rand Labs has been offering low-level mercury and methyl mercury analytical services for well over two decades! Low detection limits, outstanding data quality, and unparalleled customer service have established Brooks Rand Labs as the premier specialty metals analytical laboratory services provider. As experts in the determination and characterization of trace metals in complex matrices, Brooks Rand Labs has the capabilities to meet even the most challenging project requirements.

Throughout the late 1980’s and 1990’s, Brooks Rand Labs contributed to the development and validation of many of the EPA 1600-series methods that are commonly used for low-level metals and metal speciation analyses today. Nearly a decade ago, we expanded our capabilities by adding ultra-low ICP-MS analyses and speciation services by IC-ICP-MS to our list of capabilities. Today, BRL provides specialized trace metals analytical services to hundreds of projects worldwide, and we are very dedicated to staying in our niche. We don’t provide any analytical services outside of the trace metals arena, which allows us to stay focused on what we do best.

Many members of our staff, from the Sample Disposal Technician to our President, are seasoned veterans in the world of ultra-trace metals analysis and metals speciation. Together we work to provide thoroughly ultra-clean and pre-tested sampling equipment, fast turn-around-time options, high-quality validated data, and custom reporting packages at competitive prices to ensure that our clients receive the meaningful metals data they require to make critical decisions.

The Brooks Rand Labs Mission
Our mission: to provide the highest quality analytical services for trace metals and metals speciation customized to address the needs of our clients.

Our vision: to support better environmental, human health, and scientific decision-making by providing high-quality analytical services for metals in a workplace that is healthy, respectful, fun, and intellectually stimulating for our employees.

In addition to a highly qualified staff of dedicated scientific professionals, Brooks Rand Labs maintains a state-of-the-art facility with the dedicated equipment, instrumentation, and infrastructure necessary to provide the highest quality trace metals analytical services. Located in Seattle, Washington, our approximately 10,000 square foot controlled-access facility includes all of our administrative and managerial offices, specialized analytical laboratories, and secured sample storage areas, providing our company with the capacity to process even large quantities of samples in a consistently effective and timely manner.

Comprising nearly half of our entire facility, our custom designed ultra-clean laboratories are ideally suited for preparing and analyzing samples for projects that require the most accurate and precise results for low-level metals. All possible precautions are taken to reduce potential metals contamination and all laboratory consumables, supplies, and reagents are constantly monitored for ultra-purity.

To ensure the integrity of our clients’ samples and to protect the health and safety of our staff, sophisticated HEPA-filtered air handling systems supply all of our laboratories with closely monitored Class 100-equivalent quality air, and any potentially harmful fumes are quickly swept from laboratory areas by all-plastic fume hoods. To ensure that no interruptions in our water or gas supply can occur, ultra-pure gasses (argon, nitrogen, helium, and hydrogen) are stored in bulk quantities isolated from the laboratories, and are monitored by our supplier, and ultra-pure deionized reagent water is supplied from a custom-built reverse osmosis system with a 500-gallon reservoir.

All samples are securely stored in custom-built non-metallic ventilated cabinetry or a continuously-monitored 200 square footwalk-in refrigeration and freezer unit, which ensures a controlled environment for temperature sensitive samples. Sample disposal is always performed in a safe and environmentally responsible manner consistent with all applicable local, state, and federal regulations.

Brooks Rand Labs is constantly investing in and implementing methods that take advantage of the latest advanced analytical instrumentation and equipment in order to provide our clients with the highest quality data available. Furthermore, since our sister company, Brooks Rand Instruments, designs and builds many of the same commercial systems that we use in our laboratory operations, we are able to ensure that the systems provide the absolutely best performance for our clients.

Multiple redundant IT systems provide extensive security and backup capabilities to ensure that only those with proper authorization are capable of accessing our laboratory information management system (LIMS) or other client-related files and that regularly scheduled and automated daily backups occur to preserve data in the event of a catastrophe. Detailed security and emergency response procedures are in place for the protection of staff and samples, in addition to a comprehensive chemical hygiene plan.

Listed below is just a partial account of some of the analytical instrumentation and equipment that are consistently utilized and properly maintained to accomplish the preparation and analysis of a variety of samples for low-level metals and metals speciation.

Services

Brooks Rand Labs offers analytical services specific to the trace metals and metal speciation arena. With numerous accreditations and decades of experience with the EPA 1600-series methods, we maintain the collective knowledge and experience required to provide the most meaningful metals data possible for diverse industries around the world.

In the past 30 years, Brooks Rand Labs has contributed to the development and validation of many of the EPA 1600-series methods that are commonly used for low-level metals and metal speciation analyses today. Today Brooks Rand Labs provides specialized trace metals analytical services to hundreds of projects globally, and we are very dedicated to staying in our niche. We don’t provide any analytical services outside of the trace metals arena, which allows us to stay focused on what we do best.