Accreditation and Quality Assurance

GijNZLER H (1995) Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Analytical Chemistry. Springer, Germany. 

Information about forthcoming meetings and symposia can be found on the wuw sites of the organizations described above (see Table 8.4). The journal Accreditation and Quality Assurance published by Springer (see Table 8.2) includes a comprehensive review of RM related meetings. 

Wegscheider W (1996) Proper sampling a precondition for accurate analyses. In Accreditation and quality assurance in analytical chemistry (Ed. by H. GUnzler) Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York... 

GAT Glossary of analytical terms. Series in the journal Accreditation and Quality Assurance ... 

K. Danzer, Significance of statistical quality assurance, in Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Analytical Chemistry (ed. H. Guenzler), Springer, Berlin, 1996, p. 128. 

Pritchard, E. (1995) Quality in the analytical chemistry laboratory, John Wiley, UK. Gunzler, H. (ed.) (1996) Accreditation and quality assurance in analytical chemistry, Springer-Verlag, UK. 

Wang, W, Zheng, J, Tholen, D W, Cao, Z, and Lu, X (2005), A statistical strategy for discouraging collusion in split-level proficiency testing schemes. Accreditation and Quality Assurance, 10 (4), 140-43. 

Many quality assurance managers, particularly for field laboratories, have learned their skills on the job. Very few tertiary courses exist to help quality assurance managers, but assiduous searching of the Internet, subscription to journals such as Accreditation and Quality Assurance, and participation in the activities of professional organizations allow analysts to build their expertise. I hope that this book will fill in some gaps for such quality assurance personnel and that it will give students and new professionals a head start. 

Polak, J., Mestek, O. and Suchanek, M., Accreditation and Quality Assurance Journal for Quality, Comparability and Reliability in Chemical Measurement, 10, 627 (2006). 

This anthology contains 56 outstanding papers on the topic Traceability, published in the Journal Accreditation and Quality Assurance since its inception, but mostly in the period 2000 2003. They re ect the latest understanding of the concept measurement traceability -or lack thereof- and possibly some rationale(s) for the answer to the question why it is important to integrate the concept of measurement trace-ability into the standard measurement procedures of every analytical laboratory. 

Readers should refer to the numerous publications of AOAC International Publication Division, 481 North Frederick Av., Suite 500, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20877-2417 USA, (Internet pubsales aoac.org.) and to the journal Accreditation and Quality Assurance which issues many articles on QA and QC. 

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