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Proficiency testing and other interlaboratory comparisons. EURACHEM leaflet

Abstract

This section is devoted to the main focus of EURACHEM (a European network of metrology organizations in analytical chemistry) regulatory and guidance activities, strategic plans and tasks, discussion of document drafts and planned events.

This announcement covers issues of laboratory participation in «Proficiency Testing Schemes» and gives information on EURACHEM Guide on this matter. The translation of the leaflet «Proficiency Testing Schemes and other interlaboratory comparisons» into Russian is presented. The leaflet was prepared by EURACHEM Proficiency Testing Working Group and contains information on types of comparisons, advantages, limitations, and role of proficiency testing in providing measurement quality, use of proficiency testing results in activities of a laboratory. Criteria for choosing proficiency testing schemes, accreditation of proficiency testing providers, educational aspects are considered. 

About the Authors

M. Yu. Medvedevskikh
FGUP «Ural Research Institute for Metrology»
Russian Federation

Ph.D. (Eng.), Head of Laboratory for Moisture Measurement and Certified Reference Materials, 

4 Krasnoarmeyskaia St., Ekaterinburg 620075



V. B. Baranovskaja
Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences; State Research and Design Institute of Rare Metal Industry «GIREDMET»; National University of Science and Technology «MISiS»
Russian Federation

D.Sc. (Chem.), Senior Researcher;

Expert, Department of Analytics and Quality;

Leading Researcher, Associate Professor, 

bld 1, 5 B.Tolmachevskiy per, Moscow 119017



References

1. GOST ISO/IEC 17011-2009 Conformity assessment. General requirements for accreditation bodies accrediting conformity assessment bodies. Moscow, Standartinform Publ., 2010. 20 p. (In Russ.)

2. GOST ISO/IEC 17043-2013 Conformity assessment. General requirements for proficiency testing. Moscow, Standartinform Publ., 2014, 36 p. (In Russ.)


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For citations:


Medvedevskikh M.Yu., Baranovskaja V.B. Proficiency testing and other interlaboratory comparisons. EURACHEM leaflet. Measurement Standards. Reference Materials. 2017;13(3-4):41-44. (In Russ.)

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