Third Division is responsible for：

　●Testing for inorganic components of samples from water, wastes, soil, toxic chemicals, chemicals substances for environmental use, and biological substances.

　●Development and publication of standard test methods relating to inorganic test items .

Major Tasks：

　●test for inorganic pollutants .

　●test for important environment pollution issues .

　●environmental survey for river water bodies .

　●distribution investigation of mercury pollutants in environment .

　●establishment of finger-printing database of inorganic pollutants .

Facilities and Equipments ：

　●Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectroscopy .

　●Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectroscopy .

　●Mercury Rapid Analyzer .

　●Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer .

　●Ion Chromatography .

　●X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (XRF) .

　●Total Organic Carbon A nalyzer .