National Institute for Environmental Studies

Further afield, in 1978 the Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) started the production of a series of biological and environmental matrix CRMs, certified for a number of trace elements (Okamoto and Fuwa 1985). Recently also the certification of metal species in some materials was reported (Okamoto and Yoshinaga 1999). 

In Wolf WR, ed. Biological Reference Materials, pp. 109-140. John Wiley Sons New York. Okamoto K and Fuwa K (1985) Certified reference material program at the National Institute for Environmental Studies. Anal Sd 1 206-207. 

Okamoto K, Iwata Y (1982) Preparation of pond sediment. In Okamoto K, ed. Preparation, Analysis and Certification of Pond Sediment Certified Reference Material. Research Report No. 38, pp 13-22. National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki. 

Institut de Recherches de la Siderurgie, France International Organization for Standardization ISO Council Committee on Reference Materials International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry Laboratory of the Government Chemist, UK, formerly NPL National Bureau of Standards, USA, now NIST National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, USA National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, UK Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies National Institute of Occup. Health, Oslo, Norway National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA, formerly NBS,... 

National Institute for Environmental Studies (2002) Embodied energy and emission intensity data for Japan using input-output tables (3EID). National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan... 

Hideko Sone National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan Makiko Suwa Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC), National Institute ofAdvaneed Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan Takashi Suzuki Life Science Laboratory, Analytical and Measuring Instruments Division, Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, Japan Hisao Takeuchi Mitsubishi Chemical Group Science and Technology, Inc., Yokohama, Japan... 

The National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) of the Environment Agency of Japan is a well-established producer of biological and environmental CRMs. In this context, in 1991 Okamoto described the preparation of the multi-elemental CRM NIES 10 Unpolished Rice Flour [25], Unpolished rice, instead of polished rice, was selected as the raw material for this CRM since the former was used as a test material for environmental contamination. In fact, unpolished... 

Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), 16-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-8126, Japan National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0053, Japan The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo,... 

National Institute for Environmental Studies, LIST OF STRAINS, 1994... 

All reagents were of analytical grade unless otherwise mentioned. CRMs (marine sediment and mussel tissue), supplied by the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan were used. Results obtained in the analysis of these CRMs are shown in Table 6.3. The results obtained were compared through one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). 

Measurements, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (EC-JRC-IRMM), the National Research Council (NRC), Canada, the Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC), UK, and the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan. 

M. Morita, J. Yoshinaga, H. Mukai, Y. Ambe, A. Tanaka, Y. Shibata, Specimen banking at National Institute for Environmental Studies. Japan, Chemo.sphere. 34 (1997), 1907 -1919. 

NIES National Institute for Environmental Studies of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan... 

A contribution to the subproject Chemical Mechanisms Development - Gas Phase Processes (CMD-GPP) of EUROTRAC-2 was also the study on Development of Oxidation Mechanisms for Aromatic Hydrocarbons and their Unsaturated Difunctional Products , made with German and Japanese (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Atmospheric Environment Division, Tsukuba) scientists. 

All the above mentioned activities are the result of fruitful collaboration between the following institutions Bergische Universitat Wuppertal, Germany "Al.I.Cuza" University of Iasi, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Romania Ecole des Mines de Douai, Departement Chimie et Environnement, France Fundadon Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterraneo, Patema, Valencia, Spain National Institute for Environmental Studies, Atmospheric Environment Division, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. 

ICHIRO TERASHIMA and AKIO TAKENAKA, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Toliyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, TOKYO 113, JAPAN and National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogam, Tsukuba, IBARAKI 305, JAPAN2... 

Table 3 Representative certified reference materials for speciation analysis available from European Commission (BCR), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and National Research Council Canada (NRCC)...

The ISO Council on Reference Materials (REMCO) has identified more than 170 RM producers worldwide for the various fields of analyses. Two main bodies - the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, USA) and the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM, European Commission, Belgium), successor of BCR (which is now a trade mark for materials produced by IRMM) - cover several fields and ensure long-term availability of the CRMs due to the large batches of materials produced. Other producers specialize in a particular field of interest, e.g., the National Research Council of Canada (NRCC, Canada), the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES, Japan), the IAEA Marine Environment Laboratory (Monaco), etc., specialize in marine analysis. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, Austria) mainly provides materials for nuclear measurements but also supplies RMs for non-nuclear analyses. 

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