Certified reference materials for environmental monitoring of organic contaminants

Innovations to determine organic contaminants - second edition - An overview of the state-of-art determining organic contaminants (Book title) Section 3. Quality Assurance, Reference Materials, Chemometrics and Data Dissemination

This chapter presents an overview on Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) applicable to environmental monitoring of organic pollutants. First, an introduction is given on the public and political interests for the preservation of our natural capital and on the importance of the quality of measurement data for the management of the environmental resources. CRMs have a fundamental role in this context, by securing reliable and accurate measurement results and enabling comparability in time and space by being primary means for the metrological traceability of data. Aspects such as the production and application of CRMs are addressed, before presenting a summarised overview on the available CRMs for the different environmental compartments. A compilation of CRM producers and databases, and an outlook to new developments in the field complete the contribution.

RICCI Marina;  DE BOER Jacob; 

2024-11-14

Elsevier Science

JRC132668

978-0-323-85601-0 (online),   

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780323856010000205,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC132668,   

10.1016/B978-0-323-85601-0.00020-5 (online),