Corporat e Ov er vie w A G A T Laborat ories is a highly specialized Canadianbased com pan y that pr o vides analytical laborat or y ser vices w o rldwide With o v er 30 y e ars of e xperience coast t o coast locations and o v er 1 000 em plo y ees Canadawide A G A T Laborat ories is the most geographically and t echnically div er si ed laborat or y in Canada Our scientists are highly skilled and specialized in the elds of chemistr y biochemistr y micr obiology geology engineering and specialty analysis A G A T Laborat ories operations encom pass 12 scienti c divisions t o of f er fullser vice solutions t o multiple industr y types within the En vir onmental Energy Mining Industrial T ranspor t ation A griF ood and Lif e Science sect or s A G A T Laborat ories specializes in the f ollo wing scienti c areas En vir onmental Chemistr y Ultratrace T o xicology A gricultural Analysis F ood T esting Ser vices Geology and P e tr ology R eser v oir Charact erization Air Quality Monit oring Oil and Gas Chemistr y Oilsands Analysis R outine Core Mining Geochemistr y T ribology Pre v entativ e Maint enance A G A T Laborat ories ne tw or k of laborat or y locations pr o vides clients with costef f ectiv e and timely analysis in which the most upt odat e t echnical standar ds are me t A G A T Laborat ories is pr oud t o se t the standar d f or the laborat or y industr y ensuring v alidity and accuracy of me thodologies thr ough our e xt ensiv e q uality assurance and q uality contr ol pr ograms With w orldclass f acilities and stat e ofthear t instrumentation our q uali ed per sonnel adhere t o A G A T Laborat ories mission stat ement deliv e ring Ser vice Be y ond Analysis Quality Assurance and Quality Control A G A T Laborat ories em plo ys q uality assurance pr of essionals whose mandat e is the continuous im pr o v ement of our organization Our Quality Assurance Depar tment monit or s the operations of the com pan y and ensures com pliance with the bestdocument ed practices This depar tment em plo ys a Quality Assurance Sys t em t o ensure precision accuracy and reliability in all of our ser vices These best practices are document ed and consist ent with industr y regulat ed standar ds In addition w e conduct regular q uality contr ol checks on all instrumentation and our per sonnel regularly e v aluat es all methodologies and pr ocedures f or the continuous im pr o v ement of our ser vices A ccredit ation A G A T Laborat ories is accredit ed or appr o v ed f or speci c analyses b y the f ollo wing Canadian Association f or Laborat or y A ccreditation CALA Standar ds Council of Canada SCC Canadian Council of Minist er s of the En vir onment CCME Association of Pr of essional Engineer s Geologists and Geoph ysicists of Alber ta APEGG A A G A T Laborat ories is accredit ed f or the f ollo wing b y the Int ernational Organization f or Standar dization ISO 900 12008 ISOIEC 1 70252005