Foundation laid for environmental public health lab
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186px; line-height: 13.7999992370605px;">Spanning over 9,000 square feet the facility will serve as a multipurpose facility with about 34 rooms which will include a state of the art laboratory.</span>
October 28, 2014Updated: October 28, 2014
By KUAM News
By KUAM News by Jolene Toves
Guam - Today the Department of Public Health celebrated the foundation laying of what will become the region's first Guam Environmental Public Health Laboratory. Spanning over 9,000 square feet the facility will serve as a multipurpose facility with about 34 rooms which will include a state of the art laboratory.
Public Health's chief environmental health officer Tom Nadeau said, "But it is first and foremost a lab to study mosquitoes that we collect around the island for identification and eventually tested for pathogens and pesticide resistance which is why it is fondly referred to as mosquito lab."
The laboratory will allow for the implementation of surveillances for food and mosquitoes to better monitor, prevent and control mosquito borne outbreaks and diseases. The facility will also have the capacity to conduct food screening tests for heavy metals, pathogens, and radionuclides as well as test water quality for the presence of lead and other metals. The project costs approximately $3 million with a completion date of March 2015.
Guam - Today the Department of Public Health celebrated the foundation laying of what will become the region's first Guam Environmental Public Health Laboratory. Spanning over 9,000 square feet the facility will serve as a multipurpose facility with about 34 rooms which will include a state of the art laboratory.
Public Health's chief environmental health officer Tom Nadeau said, "But it is first and foremost a lab to study mosquitoes that we collect around the island for identification and eventually tested for pathogens and pesticide resistance which is why it is fondly referred to as mosquito lab."
The laboratory will allow for the implementation of surveillances for food and mosquitoes to better monitor, prevent and control mosquito borne outbreaks and diseases. The facility will also have the capacity to conduct food screening tests for heavy metals, pathogens, and radionuclides as well as test water quality for the presence of lead and other metals. The project costs approximately $3 million with a completion date of March 2015.