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Melinda Melinda is offline
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"Scott Dorsey" > wrote in message
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> 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
>
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."


Excellent, thanks Scott. I never thought about the Extension Service.

Melinda