Melinda > wrote:
>
>This brings up something I've been meaning to ask the group...if I wanted to
>take a sample of tea from my cupboard and get it analyzed for pesticides
>etc., how would I go aobut doing that? I imagine a lab, but what kind, how
>would I find one, and would they do such a thing for a member of the general
>public?

Here in Virginia, the agricultural extension service has access to a lab
at Virginia Tech that can do pesticide assays for very low prices.

Your extension service may have something similar.

Some commercial labs include http://www.wcaslab.com and
http://www.emalab.com. I have not used either, though.
--scott

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