Services & Capabilities

Projects In Microbiology

• • Development of Hospital infection protocols
  • Development of clinic infection control protocols
  • Hospital HIV risk reduction protocols in a teaching hospital
  • Surgical medical equipment risk assessment , risk management and decontamination
  • Risk management and decontamination of hospitals, schools, commercial buildings and residences with fungal contamination
  • Risk characterization, risk management and decontamination of consumer products and fungal contamination
  • Norovirus control and decontamination in the health care industry
  • Norovirus decontamination and control in the entertainment industry
  • Decontamination of food service facilities following a MRSA outbreak
  • Legionella controls in the hospital, and health care facilities
  • Legionella controls in the commercial and recreation facilities
  • MRSA risk management and sanitation in consumer products
  • MRSA in recreational equipment
  • Implantable Medical device risk management and sterilization
  • Participation in the National Academy Sciences committee on Chemical and Biological warfare committee for the Department of Defense
  • Risk management and risk assessment of food products with bacteriological contamination following natural disasters such as tornadoes and hurricanes
  • Assessment and decontamination for sewage/wastewater discharge

Site Assessments and Chemical Decontamination

• Exxon Valdez – Oil Spill Alaska
• British Petroleum Oil Spill – Huntington Beach California
• Electricity De France (EDF) – Reims France (PCB- Dioxins)
• ASARCO Refinery Explosion – Bay Area California (Asbestos and Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons)
• Con Edison – New York City (Asbestos)
• Southern Pacific Rail – 24-tank car ultra Hazardous Rail car derailment (Lead oxide styrene monomer, hydrofluoric acid, sulphuric acid, vinyl chloride and concentrated hydrogen peroxide)
• Arkansas – Lead in shooting range
• California Beta Lactames in pharmaceutical products – (Ohio)
• PCB containing Transformer fires – (LA and SF)
• PCB in manufacturing plants – Illinois (Heavy Metal Contamination post high-rise fires)
• Post warehouse or processing plant fires in food – (candy, fish, meat and vegetable facilities) Washington State, Missouri, Kansas, California
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in – Ohio (Post fire multiple contaminate surveys and remediation design)
• Pesticide storage warehouse fire at 40 below zero