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qPCR Testing

EnviroScience, Inc is offering qPCR testing meeting the requirements of the Ohio EPA's Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) monitoring program through a collaborative agreement with the City of Akron.
 
EnviroScience will be accepting customers on a first-come first-serve basis based on sampling week, with a maximum of 25 samples per week.

qPCR Pricing includes the following: Total Cyanobacteria test (16S, Microcystins, Cylindrospermopsin, and Saxitoxin), shipping materials, shipping costs and sample bottles.
 
Sample schedule: EnviroScience will only be accepting samples that are taken on Tuesday of your sampling week. They are expected to be overnighted to EnviroScience on the same day of collection and processed Wednesday afternoon and/or Thursday morning by Akron. Unfortunately, samples that are not received by Wednesday cannot be analyzed that week.

Price: Samples that utilize shipping to EnviroScience: $195.00
          Samples that are couriered/hand delivered to EnviroScience:
          $190.00
 
Contact Jennifer Vydra, [email protected], for details or to check for availability.