Standards, Measurements, and Testing Programme

Boenke a (1997) Activities and current research from the EC Standards, Measurement and Testing Programme (SMT) in the area of food contact materials. Food AdditContamin 14 561-569. 

Quevauviller Ph (1997a) The EC Standards, Measurement and Testing Programme in support of the quality of products and processes. Proc Contr Qual 9 1-6. 

The Standards, Measurements and Testing Programme of the European Commission launched a few years ago a project dealing with the development and, ultimately, the production of air filters realistically exposed to welding dust occurring during stainless steel welding (Christensen et al. 1999). This project resulted in the production and certification of a batch of 1100 filters for the Cr (VI) content (40.16 0.60 pg/g dust) (CRM 545). In addition, the total leachable Cr content ( 39.37 1.30 pg/g dust) was certified as a means to check for total Cr recovery. 

Standards, Measurements and Testing Programme, EU (formerly BCR) Standard Operating Procedure Society of Plastic Engineers (Brookfield, CT)... 

An important and entirely new chapter, Chapter 6, Quality Control in Speciation Studies for Environmental Monitoring by the international authority on the topic, Ph. Quevauviller of the Standards Measurement and Testing Programme of the European Commission, has been added. 

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Guidelines for the production and certification of BCR reference materials. Standards, Measurements and Testing Programme, European Commission, 1994, Doc. BCR/48/93, 54. 

Studies are currently in progress within a project funded by the European Standards, Measurements and Testing Programme (SM T) to produce an oyster candidate CRM (BCR 710) certified for arsenobetaine and DMA as well as for organometallic species of Sn and Hg (McSheehy et al. 2003). 

Therefore, recommendation of the Standard Measurement and Testing Programme is to avoid derivatization. 

CRMs are produced by several institutions, including the Standard Measurement and Testing Programme (formerly BRC) of the EU, NIST/USA, NIES/Japan, NRCC/ Canada and lAEA/Austria. Unfortunately, until now only a few CRMs have been made available for speciation. The actual availability of respective CRMs can be obtained from catalogues or home-pages of these institutions, or from commercial CRM distributors. 

The Standards, Measurement and Testing Programme of the European Commission has contributed enormously to this development of awareness and programmes to improve quality of speciation measurements. One outstanding young scientist in the Commission has made a particular contribution - Dr Philippe Quevauviller. It is therefore a special privilege to write the Foreword for this highly important book. 

Quevauviller P (1996) Atomic spectrometry hyphenated to chromatography for elemental speciation Performance assessment within the standards, measurements and testing programme (Community Bureau of Reference) of the European Union. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 11 1225—1231. 

GC is typically used conventionally for simultaneous analysis for trichothecene mycotoxins and ZEN but requires trimethylsilyl derivatization before analysis. GC-FID produced good results in a validation of the EU Standards, Measurements and Testing Programme [107]. However, the GC method requires a derivatization procedure, which generally causes a loss of time and recovery. 

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