Assessment of the performance of pesticide-testing laboratories world-wide through proficiency testing

TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 554-562

  Şenyuva, Hamide Z ^a   Gilbert, John ^b  

^a SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TURKEY   (Turkey)

^b CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

European Proficiency Test; Method performance; Pesticides; Proficiency testing

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; LABORATORIES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONITORING; PERFORMANCE;

METHOD PERFORMANCE; PARTICIPANTS; PROFICIENCY TESTING;

PESTICIDES;

PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; HOMOGENATE; MATERIALS MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646884802     PISSN: 01659936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2006.02.005     Document Type: Article

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