Environmental testing

Environmental applied testing: Complex samples; confident answers

Environmental samples are information-rich — and notoriously challenging. Whether you’re tracking pathogens in wastewater, monitoring microbial indicators in surface waters, surveying biodiversity with environmental DNA (eDNA) or assessing impacts around mining and mineral processing sites, success depends on reliable workflows that protect sensitivity, minimize inhibition and scale with your sampling plan. We help your lab move from sample to insight with reliable purification, automation tailored for every lab type and downstream molecular analysis options built for applied testing.

Water samples often combine low target abundance with high background and PCR inhibitors. That’s why modern water testing relies on methods that deliver analytical sensitivity and reproducible quantification. From wastewater surveillance for viral and microbial targets to surface-water microbial source tracking, we enable end-to-end workflows that support confident detection and quantification — including digital PCR (dPCR) well-suited for inhibition-prone samples and precise reporting needs. For sequencing-based wastewater surveillance, enrichment strategies such as hybrid capture can increase recovery of viral sequences of interest even when target signals have a complex background.

Mining-related environmental testing spans water (process water, mine discharge, groundwater), soils and sediments (including tailings environments) and biological monitoring in surrounding ecosystems. These samples can be particularly inhibitor-rich, making robust extraction and inhibitor removal critical for reliable molecular readouts. Our water, soil and fecal extraction kits remove inhibitors and increase yields, increasing your sensitivity and reliability.