the Pancyprian Union of Chemists (PUC) and the Eurachem Education and Training Working Group are organising a two-day workshop on quality assurance in Nicosia in early March 2024. The programme is based around the main sections of the recently revised Eurachem Guide on Terminology in Analytical Measurement. The workshop will include sessions on terminology, validation, metrological traceability, internal quality control, external quality assurance (with emphasis on the new ISO/IEC 17043 standard) and quality assurance in qualitative analysis. The programme will also include an overview of publications on quality assurance, with an emphasis on recent revisions of Eurachem guides.

The scope of the training is to:

• Present and discuss critical issues of interest to both analytical and medical laboratories addressed in ISO/IEC
  17025:2017 and ISO 15189:2022 respectively, as well as other relevant documents;
• Discuss the experience of laboratories in various sectors, problems and solutions;
• Present recent publications (Eurachem guides and others).

The training is oriented to

• Personnel of accredited analytical and medical laboratories as well as those preparing for accreditation
• Lead assessors/assessors/technical experts;
• Consultants.

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