Future Trends for Reference Material Activity

There are a number of trends that will continue to influence future RM activity and a number of areas which are not yet very significant that will become more so. One important source of information on developments in the area of RMs is the series of International Symposia on Biological and Environmental Reference Materials (BERM), organization of which was described in Chapter 8. The Proceedings of these successive BERM Symposia have given a series of detailed snapshots of activity on a 2-3 year cycle over nearly two decades (BRM-i 1985 - BERM-7 99 )- Most of the information and projections in this Chapter are taken from various papers published in these BERM proceedings. 

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Wolf WR (2001) Future trends for reference material activity. In Stoeppler M, Wolf WR and Jenks PJ, eds. Reference materials for chemical analysis -certification, availability and proper usage, pp. 279-292 Wiley-VCH, Weinheim. 

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