In order for your data to be defensible to a regulating authority or in a court of law, we must adhere to hold time requirements for analytical procedures and/or laboratory sample preparation [...]
Generally, a regulated site will have specific methods that are required for the analyses and will also let you know when substitution of equivalent methods are allowed. When there is no specific [...]
Torrent offers many TAT options. Our standard TAT is 5-10 business days; starting at 9 am on the day after the sample was received. Faster TATs are available including 4, 3, 2, and 1 working [...]
Torrent’s normal business hours are Monday – Friday from 9 AM – 7 PM PST. By pre-arrangement, staff can be available to receive samples out side the normal working hours and during the weekend.
If you are planning to drop your samples off, Torrent’s daily sample receiving hours are from 9 AM to 7 PM. If you are located in the greater Bay Area, we also offer a courier pick up service. If [...]
No, many clients prefer to use their own CoCs. Most are perfectly acceptable and contain the same information in Torrent’s CoC. However, Torrent does not accept any responsibility for special [...]
The CoC is a dynamic document. It may have no changes through the life of the document, or it may have many. For proper documentation, clients must either email or FAX requests for changes or [...]
A Chain of Custody (CoC) is a legal document that is initiated by the client that acts as the formal re-quest for specific analyses to be performed by the laboratory. The CoC contains all of the [...]
Torrent accepts samples via a legal document called a Chain of Custody (CoC). Requested analysis are listed on the CoC and are relinquished to the laboratory for analysis through a series of [...]
Serving the Bay Area, Northern California, and Southern California, Alaska, and Hawaii, Torrent Laboratory is the leading environmental testing lab for certified water, soil, and air testing and analysis.
