Assignment of products to laboratories

Typically, an LSMBS will require more analyses than can reasonably be conducted by a single laboratory. Therefore, the analytical workload will have to be divided, with at least two and possibly more laboratories participating. Analytical results are generally more reliable and consistent if the individuals performing the analyses 

Therefore, assigning all analyses of any one matrix to a single analytical laboratory is preferable to shifting the analyses among laboratories. 

Commodities in the OPMBS were assigned to laboratories based on the precept that no one laboratory should be overburdened. Thus, the most difficult commodities, based on information obtained during method development, were distributed among all four participating laboratories. 

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