Analytical difficulties facing today's regulatory laboratories: Issues in method validation

Drug Testing and Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages 17-24

  MacNeil, James D ^a  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Change; Extension; Multi residue; Scope; Validation

Indexed keywords

LABORATORIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

ANALYTICAL LABORATORIES; CHANGE; DEGREES OF COMPLEXITY; EXTENSION; METHOD VALIDATIONS; MULTI-RESIDUE; RATE OF CHANGE; REGULATORY LABORATORIES; SCOPE; VALIDATION;

FACINGS;

ACCREDITATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHANGE MANAGEMENT; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; LABORATORY TEST; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84864414318     PISSN: 19427603     EISSN: 19427611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dta.1358     Document Type: Article

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