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The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) sets quality, purity, strength, and identity standards for medicines, food ingredients, and dietary supplements. Many USP standards are enforceable by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under US law. When standards become more stringent, testing laboratories can face new challenges.

Along the banks of a nine-kilometer stretch of the Rio Doce in Brazil are bright orange barriers similar to ones deployed at sea to help contain oil spills. The barriers were erected to protect plants and animals along the banks from toxic mud that has traveled more than 500 km from a collapsed dam that was holding wastewater produced by mining activities. The 2.2 billion cubic feet of toxic mud has now reached the Atlantic Ocean. On its way to the Ocean, the mud destroyed villages close to the dam and leveled approximately nine square kilometers of vegetation.

Teledyne CETAC is one of the industry leaders in nebulizer systems, offering a comprehensive line of specialized sample introduction accessories for ICP-AES and ICP-MS. Among our systems are the Marin-5 Enhanced Nebulizer System, the U5000AT⁺ Ultrasonic Nebulizer, the U6000AT⁺ Ultrasonic Nebulizer & Membrane Desolvator and the Aridus II Desolving Nebulizer. The newest member of the CETAC sample introduction family is the Aridus3 Desolvating Nebulizer System, which is a 4^th generation of a specialized liquid sample introduction accessory for ICP-MS.