Study Resources & Links

Suggested Reading Materials

• Cannabis Inflorescence for Medical Purposes: USP Considerations for Quality Attributes
• The Analytical Landscape of Cannabis Compliance Testing
• Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) and related substances
• AOAC Appendix K
• ISO17025 Standard
• Cannabis Extraction
• The Analytical Chemistry of Cannabis, Mahmoud ElSohly & Brian Thomas (Authors)
• Cannabis Laboratory Fundamentals, Shaun R. Opie (Editor)
• Marijuana Chemistry: Genetics, Processing, Potency, Michael Starks (Author)

Scientific Communities/Resource Groups

• AOAC Cannabis Analytical Science Program (CASP)
• ASTM Committee D37 on Cannabis
• Cannabis Chemistry Subdivision at the American Chemical Society (CANN)

Suggested Reading Materials

• OSHA Laboratory Standard 29CFR1910.1450
• Prudent Practices in the Laboratory, National Academies of Science, 2011
• Handbook of Chemical Health and Safety, Robert Alaimo, Editor

Preparatory Courses (Note: not affiliated with NRCC)

• ACS Div. of Chemical Health & Safety
• Laboratory Safety Institute

Suggested Reading Materials

• Contemporary Practice in Clinical Chemistry, 4th edition, Clarke & Marzinke (Editors), AACC
  Press
• Clinical Chemistry: Theory, Analysis, Correlation, 5th edition, Kaplan & Pesce (Authors)
• Clinical Chemistry, Principles, Techniques, and Correlations, 9th edition, Bishop, M. (Author) – particularly the “Enzymology” chapter
• Urinalysis and Body Fluids, 5th edition (2008), Strasinger S.K., Di Lorenzo M., (Authors)
• Tietz Textbook of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, 6th edition, Nader Rifai, Andrea Rita Horvath, Carl Wittwer (Authors)
• Tietz Textbook of Laboratory Medicine, 7th edition (including Expert Consult), Nader Rifai (Author)
• Test Bank for Tietz Fundamentals of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, 7th edition, Carl A. Burtis, David E. Bruns (Authors)
• Henry’s Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 24th edition (2021), Richard McPherson & Matthew Pincus (Authors)
• Quick Compendium Companion for Clinical Pathology: Challenge Questions for Clinical & Molecular Pathology, 2nd edition, George Leonard (Author)
• Mathematics for the Clinical Laboratory, 4th edition, Lorraine Doucette (Author)
• Self-assessment Q&A in Clinical Laboratory Science, III, 1st edition, Alan H.B. Wu (Author)
• Elsevier’s Medical Laboratory Science Examination Review, 1st edition, Graeter L., Hertenstein E., Accurso C., Labiner G. (Authors)

Suggested Reading Materials

• US EPA methods: with focus on CWA, SW-846, CERCLA
  • Approved CWA Chemical Test Methods | US EPA
  • Hazardous Waste Test Methods / SW-846 | US EPA
  • Superfund Analytical Methods (SFAM01.1) | US EPA
• Analytical Chemistry: A Chemist and Laboratory Technician’s Toolkit, 1st edition (2015), Aihui Maham & Bryan M. Ham (Authors), John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
• Quality Assurance of Chemical Measurements, 1st edition (2018), John Keenan Taylor (Author), Lewis Publishers
• Statistical Analysis of Laboratory Data: Basics, 1st edition (2021), Stanley N. Deming (Author), Statistical Designs

Quality Program Materials

• US EPA Quality Program  How EPA Manages the Quality of its Environmental Information | US EPA
• The NELAC Institute (TNI) https://www.nelac-institute.org/

Sampling Links

• RCRA Waste Sampling Draft Technical Guidance (epa.gov)
• Representative Sampling (Contaminated Site Clean-Up Information)

Waste Management and Safety Practices in the Laboratory Links

• Management of Waste – Prudent Practices in the Laboratory – NCBI Bookshelf (nih.gov)
• Lab Waste Management | EH&S (harvard.edu)
• Safe Laboratory Practices & Procedures (nih.gov)
• Lab Safety Rules and Guidelines | Lab Manager

Suggested Reading Materials

• NIOSH Analytical Methods Manual and Backup Docs
• OSHA Analytical Methods and the OSHA Field Operations Manual
• American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) and Biological Exposure Indices (BEIs) for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents (published annually)
• CIH Exam Essential Practice Simply and Thoroughly Explained
• CIH Exam Equations Simply Explained and with Examples 
• Modern Industrial Hygiene: Volume 1 – Recognition and Evaluation of Chemical Agents, 2nd edition, Jimmy L. Perkins (Author)
• The Occupational Environment: Its Evaluation, Control, and Management, 2nd edition, Salvatore DiNardi (Author), American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)
• Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene, 6th Edition (2012), B. A. Plog & P.J. Quinlan (Editors), National Safety Council

Preparatory Courses

• Introduction To IH Analytical Chemistry
• Intermediate Topics in IH Analytical Chemistry 
• University of Colorado, Denver—CIH exam preparation and certification maintenance courses
• University of Michigan – Comprehensive Industrial Hygiene Review
• IPHONE APP- CIH QUIZ GAME; DEVELOPER- BOWEN LEARNING NETWORK, INC.; FREE; VERSION 2.3.1 UPDATED 1 MONTH AGO
• BOWENehs.com– web based CIH exam prep (as described above)
• CIH Exam Crash Course- 24 contact hours; Instructor: Ian Cull, PE; online-ams.aiha.org; Stock # EL20-CIHCRASH

Suggested Reading Materials

• Casarett & Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, 9th edition, C.D. Klassen (Editor) 
• The Clinical Toxicology Laboratory: Contemporary Practice of Poisoning
  Evaluation, AACC Press 
• Clarke’s Analysis of Drugs and Poisons, 4th edition, Anthony Moffat (Editor) – Chapters on
  methodology are very good
• Disposition of Toxic Drugs and Chemicals in Man, 12th edition, Randall Baselt (Author) –
  (monographs for individual drugs)
• 500 Referenced Review Questions in Toxicology, Robert White (Author), AACC Press
• Fundamentals of Analytical Toxicology: Clinical and Forensic, 2nd edition, Flanagan R., Cuypers E., Maurer H., Whelpton R. (Authors)
• Clinical Toxicology Testing – A Guide for Laboratory Professionals, 2nd edition (2020), Kwong T., Magnani B., McMilin, G., Wu, A. (Editors)
• Principles of Forensic Toxicology, 5th edition, Barry Levine & Sarah Kerrigan (Editors)
• 2000 Toxicology Board Review Questions, Richard J. Fruncillo (Author)
• Handbook of Workplace Drug Testing, 2nd edition, Jeri Ropero-Miller & Barry Goldberger (Editors)

• ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety
• Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine
  
• American Industrial Hygiene Association