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Solutions by sector

Ahead of the regulation you face next

PFAS, microplastics and nitrosamines move faster than most catalogues. Our portfolios are built alongside the methods and directives your laboratory is about to be audited against.

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Why this matters

Regulation moves first. Your standards should not lag behind

Every new limit value creates the same problem for a testing laboratory: the method exists before the certified material does. LGC Standards works with regulators, method developers and national measurement institutes so that traceable materials are ready when the requirement lands, not eighteen months afterwards. Whether you are validating an isotope dilution workflow for PFAS in surface water, screening polymer particles in sediment, or confirming a nitrosamine impurity at parts per billion, the material at the top of your calibration curve carries the same accreditation and the same documented traceability.

Sector solutions

Matched to the method you run

Six focused portfolios built around the regulations and test methods our customers are accredited against.

  • PFAS in drinking water

    Native and 13C-labelled PFAS standards, calibration mixes and matrix CRMs aligned to the EU Drinking Water Directive and national monitoring programmes.

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  • EPA Method 1633 workflows

    Isotope dilution standards covering all 40 listed analytes, with extraction surrogates and recovery standards matched to the published method.

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  • Microplastics in water and sediment

    Characterised polymer particle materials that let you validate extraction, filtration and spectroscopic identification against a known, traceable reference.

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  • Pesticides and mycotoxins in food

    Multi-residue solution standards and food matrix CRMs for cereals, produce, dairy and beverages, supporting maximum residue limit compliance worldwide.

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  • Forensic toxicology and NPS

    Drugs of abuse, new psychoactive substances, metabolites and whole blood matrix materials for casework that has to survive cross-examination.

    Explore forensic standards

  • Petrochemical and industrial testing

    Petroleum, metal alloy and physical property standards for fuels, lubricants and manufactured materials, supporting ASTM, ISO and IP test methods.

    Explore industrial standards
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Environmental scientist collecting a river water sample for PFAS and microplastics analysis

Field sampling for a national surface water monitoring programme

In practice

From sampling point to defensible number

A national environmental agency needed to report PFAS at sub-nanogram per litre levels across six hundred surface water sites, with results that would withstand legal challenge. The laboratory standardised on LGC native and 13C-labelled standards, used matrix CRMs to demonstrate recovery across river, estuarine and groundwater types, and enrolled in AXIO proficiency testing to evidence ongoing performance. Two audit cycles later, not a single result has been contested, and the uncertainty budget is traceable end to end.

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Emerging contaminants

Built for the methods arriving now

  • 40

    PFAS analytes covered

    The full EPA Method 1633 list

  • 8

    Regulated sectors served

    Food, water, clinical, forensic and industrial

  • 170+

    Countries supplied

    With local technical support

  • 100%

    Traceable certified values

    Produced under ISO 17034 accreditation

We were asked to report PFAS across a whole river basin with six weeks of notice. LGC had the labelled standards, the matrix materials and a chemist who understood the method. That combination is the only reason we met the deadline.

Dr Elin Haugen

Head of Environmental Chemistry, Caledon Environmental Testing