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Our phone: +80214494581 Our mail: polotzk_hyg@vitebsk.by
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General information about the laboratory department

Laboratory Department of a State Institution
"Polotsk Zonal Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology"

The laboratory department carries out

Organization and sampling of samples, conducts microbiological, sanitary-chemical, physical and radiological studies of samples of food products and food raw materials, drinking water, clinical material, environmental objects, work area air (chemical and physical factors) with the issuance of test reports.

The main tasks of the laboratory department:

  • Conduct laboratory research (tests) in accordance with the current scope of accreditation

  • Mastering new research (testing) methods and their implementation

  • Organizational and methodological assistance to departmental laboratories

  • Ensuring objectivity, unity and reliability of laboratory research (tests)

  • Organization and conduct of interlaboratory comparison tests

Microbiological laboratory

We carry out research of drinking water, food and food raw materials, soil, disinfectant solutions and antiseptics, quality control of sterilization, air of healthcare organizations, environmental objects, sterility control, control of disinfection chambers, bacteriological control of culture media, clinical material, parasitological studies.

Laboratory of sanitary-chemical and toxicological research methods

- In the laboratory of sanitary-chemical and toxicological research methods, the following methods are used to determine safety indicators:

- In the laboratory of sanitary-chemical and toxicological research methods, the following methods are used to determine safety indicators:

- gas chromatography (GC) method – pesticide residues
in food, food raw materials, drinking water

- high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method
preservatives in food and food raw materials

- high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method
preservatives in food and food raw materials

- photometric method – indicators of the safety of drinking water, some metals, etc. in food products and food raw materials

- stripping voltammetric method – toxic elements, etc.
in food and food raw materials

- spectrophotometric method – some metals in products
food, food raw materials styrene, formaldehyde, etc. in the air of the work area

- spectrometric method (atomic adsorption) – determination of mercury
in food and food raw materials

- measuring noise and vibration levels in workplaces and residential premises
and public buildings, residential areas

- measurement of electromagnetic field strength, electrostatic field strength at workplaces

- measurement of microclimate parameters (relative humidity,
air temperature) in the working area of ​​industrial premises, areas of residential, public, administrative and domestic buildings

- measurement of artificial illumination at workplaces, in buildings and structures

Radiological tests are also carried out:

- environmental objects, premises of residential and public buildings to measure the equivalent dose rate of gamma radiation

- forestry products, food raw materials and food
products, agricultural raw materials and feed for measuring the specific (volume) activity of cesium-137 radionuclide

- medicinal and technical raw materials for measuring the specific activity of cesium-137 radionuclide

Answers to frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions and answers from our team of experts.

  • They won't get hurt. After the drug settles on surfaces, it will be covered with a protective film, which only insects can break. All drugs have hazard class 3, and they are approved for household use.

  • The main reasons for the appearance of cockroaches in an apartment: unsanitary conditions - clutter, leftover food, garbage in the kitchen, leaks in the water supply and sewage system; migration from neighbors - when disinfesting neighboring apartments, insects crawl to you in a place that is safer for them; moving – when moving into an apartment infested with cockroaches; traveling and spending the night outside the home - pests can be brought in with suitcases and luggage; buying furniture - for example, after purchasing a sofa infested with cockroaches.

  • At home, people typically use household chemicals purchased from hardware stores. The fact is that these products can only be useful for preventive purposes, for example, to destroy adult insects accidentally brought into an apartment. But if we are talking about a medium and high degree of infection, when the pests have formed full-fledged colonies, then household products will not be able to cope with their larvae and eggs. This is why many customers turn to us for professional help after repeated and unsuccessful attempts to solve the problem on their own.