72 laboratories this year received the American Council of Independent Laboratories (Acil) Seal of Excellence Award - and all are listed here
The American Council of Independent Laboratories (Acil) announces the Seal of Excellence Award recipients for 2004.
The Acil Seal of Excellence Awards were presented at the Acil Meeting in Orlando, FL, on 11 October 11 2004, by the chairman of the Acil Environmental Sciences Section, Robert Wyeth of Severn Trent Laboratories.
72 laboratories received the award this year.
This programme provides laboratory data users with a mechanism for evaluating environmental testing laboratories.
Participants are committed to ensuring the integrity of data, meeting customers' quality needs and setting the standards of performance for the testing laboratory industry.
No other environmental certification programme ranks participating laboratories' 12 months of proficiency testing study rounds.
No other evaluation programme ranks customer responses to satisfaction with services and requires the laboratory management to commit to a data integrity programme, says Acil.
The following laboratories, presented alphabetically, have demonstrated their commitment to quality and customer service by participating in the ACIL Seal of Excellence programme.
Accutest Laboratories, Orlando, FL.
Accutest Laboratories, Dayton, NJ.
Accutest Laboratories of New England, Marlborough, MA.
Alpha Analytical Labs, Westborough, MA.
Ana-Lab Corp, Kilgore, TX.
Aspen Analytical, Colorado Springs, CO.
Chemtech, Mountainside, NJ.
Columbia Analytical Services (CAS/S), Simi Valley, CA.
Columbia Analytical Services (CAS /D), Redding, CA.
Columbia Analytical Services (CAS/C), Canoga Park, CA.
Columbia Analytical Services (CAS/H), Houston, TX.
Columbia Analytical Services (CAS/J), Jacksonville, FL.
Columbia Analytical Services (CAS/K), Kelso, WA.
Columbia Analytical Services (CAS/P), Phoenix, AZ.
Columbia Analytical Services (CAS/R), Rochester, NY.
CompuChem, Cary, NC.
Continental Analytical Services, Salina, KS.
Del Mar Analytical, Colton, CA.
Del Mar Analytical, Phoenix, AZ.
Del Mar Analytical, Irvine, CA Edward S.
Babcock and Sons, Riverside, CA.
Environmental Health Laboratories, South Bend, IN.
Great Lakes Analytical, Oak Creek, WI.
Great Lakes Analytical, Buffalo Grove, IL.
Great Lakes Analytical, King of Prussia, PA.
H2M Labs, Melville, NY.
MJ Reider Associates, Reading, PA.
Microbac Laboratories Gascoyne, Baltimore, MD.
North Creek Analytical Alaska, Anchorage, AK.
North Creek Analytical, Bothell, WA.
North Creek Analytical, Spokane, WA.
North Creek Analytical, Beaverton, OR.
North Creek Analytical, Bend, OR.
Oceanic Analytical Laboratory, Aiea, HI.
P and K Microbiology Services, Cherry Hill, NJ.
Sequoia Analytical, Sacramento, CA.
Sequoia Analytical, Morgan Hills, CA.
Sequoia Analytical, Petaluma, CA.
Shealy Environmental Services, Cayce, SC.
Star Analytical, Fort Worth, TX.
STL Aerotech Environmental Laboratories, Phoenix, AZ.
STL Austin, Austin, TX.
STL Buffalo, Amherst, NY.
STL Burlington, Colchester, VT.
STL Chicago, University Park, IL.
STL Connecticut, Shelton, CT.
STL Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX.
STL Edison, Edison, NJ.
STL Houston, Houston, TX.
STL Knoxville, Knoxville, TN.
STL Los Angeles, Santa Ana, CA.
STL Miami, Miramar, FL.
STL Mobile, Mobile, AL.
STL Newburgh, Newburgh, NY.
STL North Canton, North Canton, OH.
STL Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
STL Richland, Richland, WA.
STL Sacramento, West Sacramento, CA.
STL San Francisco, Pleasanton, CA.
STL Savannah, Savannah, GA.
STL Seattle, Tacoma, WA.
STL St Louis, Earth City, MO.
STL Tallahassee, Tallahassee, FL.
STL Tampa, Tampa, FL.
STL Valparaiso, Valparaiso, IN.
STL Westfield, Westfield, MA.
TestAmerica Analytical Testing, Nashville, TN.
TestAmerica Analytical Testing, Dayton, OH.
TestAmerica, Cedar Falls, IA.
TestAmerica, Watertown, WI.
TriMatrix Laboratories, Grand Rapids, MI.
Weck Laboratories, Industry, CA.
An environmental testing laboratory that wants to be recognised as a participating laboratory must submit 12 months of Proficiency Testing (PT) scores, if available, and distribute satisfaction surveys to their customers and maintain proof of an annual ethics training programme and an early detection system for questionable analytical practices, submit a signed code of ethics.
The Seal of Excellence participants in 2004 demonstrated an average Proficiency Testing score of 96.9%, average timeliness of 3.3 out of a possible 4.0 and an overall customer satisfaction score of 3.6 out of a possible 4.0.
Special Recognition Awards were presented, again in alphabetical order for each category, to the following top ten laboratories in the categories identified.
The timeliness and overall customer satisfaction recognitions are based on the responses from the client surveys.
Top Ten - overall customer satisfaction.
Accutest Laboratories, Dayton, NJ.
Ana-Lab, Kilgore, TX.
Columbia Analytical Services (CAS/S), Simi Valley, CA.
Continental Analytical Services, Salina, KS.
H2M Labs, Melville, NY.
MJ Reider Associates, Reading, PA.
North Creek Analytical, Bend, OR.
Shealy Environmental Services, Cayce, SC.
STL Sacramento, West Sacramento, CA.
TestAmerica, Watertown, WI.
Top Ten PT scores large laboratory programmes (>100 average analytes attempted).
Accutest Laboratories, Orlando, FL.
Continental Analytical Services, Salina, KS.
STL Austin, Austin, TX.
STL Knoxville, Knoxville, TN.
STL Sacramento, West Sacramento, CA.
Small laboratory programmes (<100 average analytes attempted).
Columbia Analytical Services (CAS/S), Simi Valley, CA.
Columbia Analytical Services (CAS/R), Rochester, NY.
North Creek Analytical Alaska, Anchorage, AK.
North Creek Analytical, Bend, OR.
STL Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX.
Top Ten - timeliness.
Accutest Laboratories, Dayton, NJ.
Accutest Laboratories, Orlando, FL.
Accutest Laboratories of New England, Marlborough, MA.
Aspen Analytical, Colorado Springs, CO.
Columbia Analytical Services (CAS/H), Houston, TX.
CompuChem, Cary, NC.
H2M Labs, Melville, NY.
North Creek Analytical, Bend, OR.
Shealy Environmental Services, Cayce, SC.
Star Analytical, Fort Worth, TX.
The Seal of Excellence programme was developed in 1996 to address the industry's need to improve its focus on quality issues and recognise those laboratories with exemplary quality performance.
