Environmental Testing Services

MDS offers both onsite and remote environmental testing procedures required by regulatory authorities. For onsite work, specialists perform microbial sampling of water, disinfectants, surfaces, air, and compressed air/gases right at the customer location. For remote monitoring, per client's request, we supply sampling plates and sterile water collecting vials. We routinely the following media

• Sabouraud glucose Agar (SDA) media, with or without neutralizers, for recovering environmental yeast and mold contaminants.
• Tryptic (Trypticase) Soy Agar (TSA) media is used to recover any aerobic or facultative anaerobic bacteria.
• RODAC plates help monitor surface and air contamination.
• Settling plates are utilized for remote viable air monitoring while PBI SAS microbial air samplers are used during onsite monitoring. L
• aser particle counters detect non-viable airborne particulates at sizes between 0.3 µm and 10.0 µm.