FutMon QA/QC Guide for Laboratory Work : 1st version

2009

Monographie

10375S

153264

Over the past years considerable efforts have been made to improve the quality of laboratory analyses in the various monitoring programmes within the framework of the ICP Forests Programme. The Soil and Soil Solution, Deposition and Foliage and Litterfall expert panels have carried out a number of ring tests and held discussions on quality control. The expert panels' subgroup, 'Working Group on QA/QC in Laboratories', has extended its activities from the quality control of water analyses to encompass all forms of laboratory analysis, and now also includes experts in the fields of soil, foliage and litterfall. This paper presents all the quality control methods that have been devised for the relevant fields of analytical chemistry. The aim is to provide those laboratories carrying out analyses within the ICP Forests Programme with a complete overview of the possibilities of applying quality control in their laboratories.