Quality assurance and quality control in forest soil analyses: A comparison between European soil laboratories

Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Volumn 9, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 688-694

  Cools, Nathalie ^a   Delanote, Véronique ^a   Scheldeman, Xavier ^a   Quataert, Paul ^a   De Vos, Bruno ^a   Roskams, Peter ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Analytical quality control; Europe; Forest soil; Interlaboratory variability; Intralaboratory variability

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID; MALACHITE GREEN;

ACID PRECIPITATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PARTICLE SIZE; REFERENCE VALUE; SOIL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 8644289171     PISSN: 09491775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00769-004-0856-4     Document Type: Article

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