Interlaboratory Studies and Certified Reference Materials for Environmental Analysis

The Bcr Approach

By: Philippe Quevauviller, Quevauviller Ph Quevauviller, Ph. Quevauviller

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Hardcover | 1 January 2001

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The participation in interlaboratory studies and the use of Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) are widely recognised tools for the verification of the accuracy of analytical measurements and they form an integral part of quality control systems used by many laboratories, e.g. in accreditation schemes. As a response to the need to improve the quality of environmental analysis, the European Commission has been active in the past fifteen years, through BCR activity (now renamed Standards, Measurements and Testing Programme) in the organisation of series of interlaboratory studies involving expert laboratories in various analytical fields (inorganic, trace organic and speciation analysis applied to a wide variety of environmental matrices). The BCR and its successor have the task of helping European laboratories to improve the quality of measurements in analytical sectors which are vital for the European Union (biomedical, agriculture, food, environment and industry); these are most often carried out in support of EC regulations, industrial needs, trade, monitoring activities (including environment, agriculture, health and safety) and, more generally, when technical difficulties hamper a good comparability of data among EC laboratories. The collaborative projects carried out so far have placed the BCR in the position of second world CRM producer (after NIST in the USA).

Interlaboratory Studies and Certification of Reference Materials for Environmental Analysis gives an account of the importance of reference materials for the quality control of environmental analysis and describes in detail the procedures followed by BCR to prepare environmental reference materials, including aspects related to sampling, stabilization, homogenisation, homogeneity and stability testing, establishment of reference (or certified) values, and use of reference materials. Examples of environmental CRMs produced by BCR within the last 15 years are given, which represent more than 70 CRMs covering different types of materials (plants, biological materials, waters, sediments, soils and sludges, coals, ash and dust materials) certified for a range of chemical parameters (major and trace elements, chemical species, PAHs, PCBs, pesticides and dioxins).

The final section of the book describes how to organise improvement schemes for the evaluation method and/or laboratory performance. Examples of interlaboratory studies (learning scheme, proficiency testing and intercomparison in support to prenormative research) are also given.

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Part headings and chapter headings
Preface
Introduction
The analyst and his duty: socio-economic impact of analytical activities
How to Achieve Quality
Regulatory Aspects
Certified Reference Materials
Definitions
General Principles
Production of CRM
Certification of Reference Material
Availability of CRM
The Use of CRM
The Quality of CRM and Reliability of Producers
Examples of BCR-CRM for Environmental Analyses
CRMs for Plant Analysis
CRMs for Biological Material Analysis
CRMs for Water Analysis
CRMs for Sediment Analysis
CRMs for Soil and Sludge Analysis
CRMs for Coal, Ash and Dust Analysis
Interlaboratory Studies
Principles and Definitions
Laboratory Performance Studies ndash; Proficiency Testing Schemes
Method Performance Studies
Material Certification Studies
Learning Schemes
References
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