Division C.1 LABORATORY QUALITY STANDARDS
United Kingdom
Laboratories shall comply with the provisions of Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 .
Laboratories shall participate in appropriate proficiency testing schemes which comply with the ‘International Harmonised Protocol for the Proficiency Testing of (Chemical) Analytical Laboratories’f1 developed under the auspices of IUPAC/ISO/AOAC.
Laboratories shall be able to demonstrate that they have internal quality control procedures in place. Examples of these are the ‘ISO/AOAC/IUPAC Guidelines on Internal Quality Control in Analytical Chemistry Laboratories’f2.
Wherever possible the trueness of analysis shall be estimated by including suitable certified reference materials in the analysis.
Annotations
Footnotes
- f1
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‘The international harmonized protocol for the proficiency testing of analytical chemistry laboratories’ by M. Thompson, S.L.R. Ellison and R. Wood, Pure Appl. Chem., 2006, 78, 145-96.
- f2
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Edited by M. Thompson and R. Wood, Pure Appl. Chem., 1995, 67, 649-666.