Trends in quality in the analytical laboratory. I. Traceability and measurement uncertainty of analytical results

TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 480-490

  Taverniers, Isabel ^a   De Loose, Marc ^a   Van Bockstaele, Erik ^a,b  

^a Centrum voor Landbouwkundig Onderzoek Gent CLO / Centre de Recherches Agronomiques Gand   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

AOAC, Association of Official Analytical Chemists; AQA, analytical quality assurance; CCMAS, Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling; CITAC, Cooperation on International Traceability in Analytical Chemistry; CRM, certified reference material

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVALUATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY;

MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY (MU); TRACEABILITY;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; EVALUATION; HEALTH HAZARD; INFORMATION; INTERNATIONAL STANDARD UNIT; LABORATORY; MATERIALS; MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 4444291032     PISSN: 01659936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-9936(04)00733-2     Document Type: Article

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