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Weck Laboratories, Inc.

Serving our clients' need is top priority. Our staff of highly qualified professionals respond in an efficient, fast and accurate way to all testing needs. From sample collection to data validation and reporting, we put special emphasis in Quality Control operations to assure the integrity and defensibility of the analytical data provided to our client.

Background

Weck Laboratories Inc. was founded in 1964 by Dr. Friedrich Weck as a Contract Research laboratory. In the 1970’s began performing water testing for environmental contamination and now is a full service environmental testing laboratory dedicated to solve industrial problems, including production and environmental aspects. Through the years the company has grown in facility, equipment and personnel emphasizing in environmental analytical chemistry.

Weck Laboratories, Inc. was first approved in 1972 by the California Department of Health Services for complete chemical and bacteriological analysis of water.

In the 1980's the Laboratory was also involved in other fields of environmental testing such as hazardous waste, drinking water, industrial hygiene and air testing, becoming a full service environmental testing laboratory. Now it holds the certificate 1132 from the State of California under the Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (ELAP) and it is also accredited by the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts.

Weck Laboratories is a certified Small Business Enterprise (SBE).

Experience

Weck Laboratories has a broad base of clients to which the company has been providing quality environmental testing services through the years.

Although the clients are mostly located in California, there are many customers from other geographical areas, such as Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Arizona, Florida, Mexico, to name a few.

The types of clients for whom the laboratory is providing analytical testing belong to the following industries:

Testing

  • Landfills
  • Consulting Engineering Firms
  • Potable Water Districts
  • Municipalities
  • Private Water Utilities
  • Bottled water companies (domestic and international)
  • Oil Companies
  • County Water & Sanitation Agencies
  • Federal Agencies
  • Aerospace companies
  • Breweries
  • Plating industries
  • Pharmaceutical and Health Care industries
  • Metal recycling industries
  • Food manufacturing industries

Quality Assurance

The Quality Assurance Manual is constantly reviewed and updated. It covers all aspects of sample collection, analysis and reporting, from the time the sample is received at the lab through the generation of the final report. Our QC program, which based on NELAC, meets or exceeds all federal and state requirements. Calibration blanks and standards, method blanks, matrix spikes, surrogates, duplicates and certified reference standards are run on a routine basis in order to validate the data generated by our laboratory. In addition, we participate in both federal, state and privately sponsored laboratory proficiency testing programs.

Weck Laboratories is a member of the Environmental Services Division of ACIL, the American Council of Independent Testing Laboratories, a non-profit trade association that has as main objective promoting industry-wide standards for environmental testing to raise the overall quality of such testing provided to the public and to the government. 

Environmental laboratories operating in the state of California must be certified by the state. By itself however, state certification does not assure clients that they will receive high quality, legally defensible data. Weck Laboratories is committed to ensuring the integrity of the data, meeting the quality needs of clients, and setting high quality and ethical standards in our industry.

Weck Laboratories' Management is Committed to:

  • Produce results which are accurate and include QA/QC information which meets client predefined Data Quality Objectives.
  • Present services in a confidential, honest, and forthright manner.
  • Provide employees with guidelines and an understanding of the ethical and quality standards of our industry.
  • Operate the facilities in a manner that protects the environment and the health and safety of employees and the public.
  • Obey all pertinent federal, state, and local laws and regulations and encourage other members of our industry to do the same.
  • Educate clients as to the extent and kinds of services available.
  • Assert competency only for work for which adequate personnel and equipment are available and for which adequate preparation has been made.
  • Promote the status of environmental laboratories, their employees, and the value of services rendered by them. 
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