TDRM workshop on reference materials at the AOAC annual meeting 2015: How do I set up proper inter-laboratory comparison with testing materials I have prepared myself?

This workshop was prepared and conducted by the Technical Division on Reference Materials (TDRM) of the AOAC and was the fifth in a series following: ‘‘It’s an Emergency! We Need a Reference Material Now! Key Learnings About Reference Materials from Past Emergencies’’ (2014), ‘‘Building the use of Certified Reference Materials into dispute resolution’’ (2013), ‘‘The use of reference materials to enable accuracy/trueness in analytical method validation/verification’’ (2012) and ‘‘Reference materials in laboratory accreditation’’ (2011). The 2011, 2012 and 2013 workshops were summarized as meeting reports in Accreditation and Quality Assurance [1–3], whereas no meeting report was published after the 2014 meeting. At the 2015 AOAC Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, the workshop was held to discuss setting up a proper inter-laboratory comparison with testing materials that have been prepared within the laboratory. The workshop consequently addressed a common problem for many laboratories: the need for a specific reference material, when the specific test material may not be commercially available, and hence, it has to be prepared in-house. Approximately 75 participants were in attendance of this workshop mainly from the food and feed industry, universities and authorities active in this field.

BUDIN John;  EMTEBORG Hakan;  FOX Arlene;  ANDREWS Karen;  WEITZEL Jane;  RETTINGER Mitzi;  ZINK Donna; 

2022-12-15

SPRINGER

JRC103574

0949-1775 (online),   

https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/s00769-016-1220-1,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC103574,   

10.1007/s00769-016-1220-1 (online),