The WATER Test
The issue: harmful organic contaminants in your water
The water supply from UK water companies is closely monitored with prescribed legal requirements for clean water to be delivered direct to the consumer.
However, if you have any concerns about your water quality, or you are someone for whom health is a high priority, WHATSINMY? offers extra information on the level of organic contamination, above the basic legal requirements. Organic chemical elements are a broad category of substances containing carbon and hydrogen. They include pesticides, herbicides, solvents, petroleum-derived products, and many other types of compounds. Organic chemicals can be hazardous when they contaminate drinking water or swimming areas.
The test we offer for water samples is a high specification analysis, that will capture a wide range of carbon-containing organic contaminants.
It is recommended for people for whom contaminated water carries extra health risks, for example, for the very young, elderly or those with respiratory, cardiac or allergy issues, who will be more vulnerable to pollutants within water.
Take the WATER test
At WHATSINMY? we provide independent testing services with the expertise of our chemist team from our cutting-edge laboratory near Oxford in the UK. It’s a “GCxGC” lab or, more precisely, a two-dimensional gas chromatography with time-of-flight mass spectrometry lab.
This means we can identify the many individual compounds, not just the combined total as per standard water quality measurement tools. This is vital, as each organic compound has a different health or environmental effect.
Taking the WATER test will identify the wide range of organic compounds in your water sample.
You will receive a personalised report with a list of all the chemicals found in your sample, with the chemical found in the highest concentration ranked highest. You will also see that the chemicals which have strong evidence to have health and environmental impacts on human and animal health have coloured categories next to them detailing health impacts from anxiety & depression to endocrinal disruptors.
More information on these potentially harmful chemicals, including their possible sources, effects and how to reduce their impact in your home and life, can be found by following the link provided in your report to The Science Behind WHATSINMY? website. This is a specialist consumer science website designed to help you understand more about the benefits or risks for organic compounds, and where these can be found in a domestic and community setting.
How it works
1. Book a test and capture sample in bottle provided, following the easy-to-use instructions.
2. Return the test to our laboratory using the mailbox provided (postage is paid in the UK).
3. Our scientific team will get to work using the analysis of the GCxGC machine.
4. You receive your personalized results, within 10 days of our laboratory receiving your sample.
WHATSINMY? laboratory delivers both single and two-dimensional gas chromatography analytical services, with the operation of a GCxGC machine under the expert management of our chemist and health data research team.
Our testing equipment is high quality laboratory equipment. We send it out to you for the purposes of taking the most accurate, reliable and validated results. We keep samples for up to 14 days once tested.
Price includes VAT and free shipping in the UK. International orders will need to contact hello@whatsinmy.world for a bespoke order with additional postage.
What we don’t test
Please note this is a test for organic matter and its reactive compounds in your everyday world. We do not test for radon, metals and other non-organic matter.
The following samples are not accepted: illegal substances, faecal matter (aside from that which is invisible to the naked eye within river/sea/lake water) and organisms dead or alive.
Order a test today, learn about the toxins specific to your home and take informed action to protect your family and pets.
For more information, contact us – hello@whatsinmy.world