Lab News

MMLI Receives Platinum Rating
Madisonville, July, 2010 – L-3 Communications Joint Operations Group has been a supplier for the Special Operations Forces Support Activity (SOF-SA) and has rated MMLI with their top rating, Platinum, for the support services we provided during their work with SOF-SA. Ms. Yvette D. White of SOF-SA wrote, “The United States Special Operations (USSOCOM) demands we supply our customers with top quality products/services to be in the right place, at the right time, in the right quantity, at the lowest possible cost. You are an integral part of this supply chain.” Mike Baumgardner, V.P. of McCoy & McCoy Laboratories, Inc. was very proud of the rating and said, “The rating of 100% was a great honor to bestow on our employees and helps confirm their dedication to professionalism and excellence.”

HUB ZONE Certification
Madisonville, KY , March, 2010 – McCoy & McCoy Laboratories, Inc has been awarded certification under the Small Business Administrations’, HUBZone Program. This certification became effective March 28, 2010 as a “qualified HUBZone small business concern” (SBC). MMLI is now eligible to receive HUBZone contracting opportunities, and will be included in the listing of qualified HUBZone small business concerns found on the Internet at http://dsbs.sba.gov/dsbs/search/dsp_searchhubzone.cfm.

McCoy & McCoy Attends Pittcon
Orlando, FL, March, 2010 – Doug Wolfe, Director of Laboratory Services, and Mike Baumgardner, VP attended the Pittcon 2010 Conference in Orlando. Pittcon is unique because no other conference brings together science instrument manufacturers and scientists that have the common goal of developing instrumentation to match the science needs of tomorrow. MMLI takes this opportunity to research the coming trends of testing and to ensure our company continues to set the mark for the use of state-of-the-art instrumentation. “This commitment to our customers ensures the data they receive from our laboratories is of the highest quality” .

Hopkinsville Solid Waste Authority Awards Landfill Contract
Madisonville, January, 2010 – McCoy & McCoy Laboratories, Inc was awarded the groundwater (GW) monitoring project for the Hopkinsville Landfill. Dave Baumgardner, Marketing Representative and Doug Wolfe, Director of Laboratory Services, were instrumental in the success of this award. MMLI employs a professional team of groundwater experts and currently performs this type of testing throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

A Top Rated Company
Madisonville, 2010 - McCoy & McCoy Laboratories, Inc employed a national business ratings company to survey a representative sampling of our customers with the goal of measuring our business performance. We are very proud to announce that our overall rating was 100% satisfaction, with all measuring indices over 90% satisfaction. MMLI is very proud of the level of service we have provided the lab user community. The results of this survey confirms our efforts over the past years to always look for ways to build the relationship between the laboratory and its customers, by encompassing quality testing with knowledgeable personnel.

MMLI Leads the Nation in Crypto Recovery Accuracy
Madisonville, August, 2009 - Since 2005, McCoy & McCoy Laboratories, Inc. (MMLI) recoveries have been above the national average in all but one round of testing. This last PT study marks the sixth (6th) time MMLI’s Cryptosporidium lab, led by Philip Beecham, has led all laboratories in the performance of this testing using the Filtra-max method. The most recent EPA PT Study (#0509), MMLI not only had the highest recoveries using the Filta-max Method (73%), but had a higher recovery rate than the mean average of any one of the five EPA approved methods!

USACE – Louisville District Awards Whole Effluent Toxicity Testing
Madisonville, July, 2009 – The US Army Corp of Engineers have awarded McCoy & McCoy’s Madisonville laboratory with the testing program for this district. Chronic whole effluent toxicity tests (WET) are to be conducted on surface and effluent waters collected from inflow tributaries to selected reservoir projects. Two organisms will be utilized on all test samples, along with control samples and 5 sample dilutions. All data will be provided to the Government via electronic format and PDF file of the final report.

Automatic Temperature Data Loggers Are Now Used
Madisonville, May, 2009 – In order to enhance our temperature monitoring MMLI has installed Dickson data loggers on all critical instruments that require constant temperature recording. “As we continue to enhance the quality of our data, it is only reasonable that we maintain control of all of our instruments. Incubators, ovens, & laboratory coolers are no less important that gas chromatographs or ICP’s”, stated Mike Baumgardner, VP of MMLI. Temperature monitoring within the environmental field only requires a daily recording; however MMLI is continuing to develop food safety test methods and this monitoring ensures our capability to meet more stringent QA . With the new Dickson Wireless Data Loggers we are able to monitor each instrument every 15 minutes. An alert is sent to the supervisor, by e-mail & text message, whenever an out-of-range event occurs. For more on this type of data logger go to http://www.dicksondata.com/product/model_WH120.php.

Veolia Water – Oldham County Sewer District Awards KPDES Testing To MMLI
Louisville, KY< April, 2009 – Veolia/OCSD has awarded all KPDES testing to MMLI beginning April 6. Mr. Rick Retz of Veolia stated the decision was based on McCoy & McCoy’s experience and the reputation we had statewide. Mr. Jason Blair of MMLI’s Louisville office will direct this project.

MMLI Upgrades Organic Testing
Madisonville, March, 2009 – The Organic department received two new Agilent Gas Chromatograph instruments. The updated instrumentation will enhance the delivery of data, enhance accuracy, and are more efficient to operate said; Shaun West, Senior Organic Chemist oversees this department. “In this time of economic stress it’s good to see that our company is moving forward”.

Cryptosporidium Continues to Grow
Madisonville, March, 2009 – MMLI’s cryptosporidium testing department continues to grow. Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia are the leading areas. Philip Beecham, MMLI’s Cryptosporidium Certified Analyst and his team have developed a reputation for prompt and accurate testing. Call Philip with your crypto questions at 270-824-2222.

Ice Storm Slows But Does Not Stop Us
Madisonville/Paducah, February, 2009 - A winter storm for the ages hit western KY January 27, 2009. Power and/or communications were out for some for over 20 days. The Madisonville laboratory was without power for 10 days and unfortunately without any type of communications for 3 days. But with the commitment and dedication of a group of employees, generators were fired-up and employees bared the cold laboratory to either continue testing or direct samples to our laboratories, in Lexington or Pikeville. As a result of this disaster MMLI has begun the work to develop a comprehensive disaster plan.

MMLI Gets New Updated Laboratory Sample Management System
Madisonville, February, 2009 – Perkin Elmer’s “LabWorks”, (a software that tracks samples from submittal to reporting) has installed an updated version. This new version has multiple enhancements, but the most notably is additional QA/QC provisions. “We are happy to be able to provide behind the scenes service to our customers. These enhancements enable MMLI to provide another level of defensible data for our clients.” – Dr. Todd Cowan, QA/QC Officer. For more info go to: www.perkinelmer.com/labworks

MMLI Begins in-house Testing for EPA 1631 & EPA 245.7
Madisonville, July, 2008 – As the demand grew for this testing, MMLI responded by purchasing a CETAC, QuickTrace M-8000 Mercury Analyzer. This instrument utilizes CVAFS technology to easily achieve ultra-low levels of Hg (0.5 ppt IDL). Both EPA 245.7 & EPA 1631 methods can be performed using this instrument. Jared Daughtery, Chemist II, is the lead chemist for this testing. For more info go to http://www.cetac.com/mercury_analyzers/m8000.asp

Hardin County Water District #1 Renews Testing
Louisville, June, 2008 – MMLI is proud to be able to serve HCWD #1 for another year. After struggling with compliance reporting issues in 2006 HCWD #1 contracted with MMLI to be their primary testing provider for SDWA compliance testing. Since then MMLI has worked with HCWD #1 to enhance their compliance testing and reporting. For more information concerning these services click on CONTACT US and any of our Sales team can help you.

MMLI Adds Bonny Hewlett to the DMR Section
Madisonville, April, 2008 – Due to the demand for MMLI service to provide computer generated Discharge Monitoring Reports. Bonny Hewlett has been added to the DMR section. She will be assisting Sherri Crowley in the generation of DMR’s for our KPDES & IPDES clients. “Our company has the reputation of service and this is just another area we have a proven record of assisting our customers satisfy regulatory requirements.” – Mike Baumgardner, VP

MMLI Names New Western Region Marketing Rep
Madisonville, April, 2008 – Dave Baumgardner has been promoted to the Western KY Marketing Representative position. Dave has been with MMLI since graduating from Murray State University in 2001. Dave has a BS, in Business Administraion. Dave began his career in our Field Services Department, then became the Paducah Laboratory Manager.

Commonwealth of Kentucky Awards Contract
Madisonville, March, 2008 – The Commonwealth of Kentucky has awarded McCoy & McCoy Laboratories, Inc. a contract to provide environmental testing for all state agencies. The contract is for one year with four annual options. MMLI has held this contract for ten years and has provoded the all state agencies with prompt and professional services.

MMLI Names New Safe Drinking Water Coordinator
Madisonville, March, 2008 - Mark DeMoss has been promoted as the Safe Drinking Water
Coordinator for McCoy & McCoy Laboratories. Mark has been employed with MMLI for 17
years and has a BS in Agricultural Science from western Kentucky University. His last position
as the Western Region Marketing representative has provided Mark with a true knowledge of
the expectations our customers have regarding their potable water testing.

On behalf of our valued staff we would like to wish all of our customer’s success in 2010. We look forward to continuing to provide each with service second to none!

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