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Key Challenges in Internal Quality Control (2012)

The Eurachem Education and Training Working Group organised an international workshop on internal quality control in Berlin on Wednesday 10 to Thursday 11 October 2012. The event was hosted by the German member of Eurachem, EUROLAB Germany. The workshop covered analytical results from a range of sectors and disciplines including chemical analysis, testing, laboratory medicine and microbiology. The main focus was on internal quality control performed in the laboratory for the continuous monitoring of operations and results of measurements, in order to decide whether results are reliable enough to be released. qcpic80
The workshop included invited lectures, short communications, posters and break-out sessions.
A training course on internal quality control was held at the same venue the day before the workshop, Tuesday 9 October.

 

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Programme and Presentations

Training course

Course on Internal Quality Control [programme available - PDF, 37kb]

 

Workshop

Workshop Day 1 - Wednesday 10 October 2012
  • Opening of the workshop
    Bertil Magnusson, SP Swedish Technical Research Institute, Sweden
  • Internal quality control in chemical analysis - the big picture
    Michael Thompson, UK
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  • Internal QC in a production laboratory - large series of automated analyses
    Ulla Lund, Eurofins, Denmark
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  • The point of view of assessors when reviewing IQC activities
    Ursula Ellerbeck, DAkkS, Department for Analytical Chemistry, Germany
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  • Setting control limits based on demand on measurement quality
    Bertil Magnusson, SP Swedish Technical Research Institute, Sweden
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  • IQC of DNA analysis
    Ricky Ansell, Swedish National Laboratory of Forensic Science, Linköping, Sweden
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  • IQC in microbiological testing
    Christina Oscroft, Campden-BRI, UK
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  Poster session
  Breakout sessions offered:
  • 1. Internal QC – Accreditatation body and Laboratory points of view when assessing a laboratory according to the ISO standards 17025, 15189
  • 2. Setting control limits – statistical and target limits
  • 3. QC for laboratories handling many samples
  • 4. Following up QC failures
  Summary of breakout sessions (all sessions)
   

 

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Workshop Day 2 – Thursday 11 October 2012
  • Using split sample technique for quality control in a clinical laboratory
    Elvar Theodorsson, Linköping University Hospital, Sweden
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  • Internal QC for qualitative tests - Identification of the active substance in tear gas weapons
    Ricardo Bettencourt da Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal
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  • Challenges and solutions for implementing IQC measures in ad-hoc or non-routine analysis in universities
    Irene Mueller-Harvey, University of Reading, UK
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  • Control charts to evaluate long-term performance in proficiency tests
    Angela Sorbo, European Union Reference Laboratory for Chemical Elements in Food of Animal Origin, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy
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  • The EA Laboratory Committee point of view of IQC activities
    Ioannis Sitaras, Hellenic Accreditation System S.A.- ESYD, Greece
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  Poster session
  Breakout sessions offered:
  • 5. QC for multi-methods e.g. screening for pesticides
  • 6. Challenges in obtaining fit for purpose control samples; stability, matrix matching, concentration level of analyte, robust preparation of new synthetic control samples…
  • 7. Internal QC for non-routine analysis
  • 8. Internal QC for qualitative testing
  • 9. Annual revision of the QC programme
  Summary of breakout sessions (all sessions)
  Closing of the workshop
Vicki Barwick, LGC, UK

 

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Posters

Available posters are listed below:

 

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Publication

A report of the meeting can be found as

Barwick, V. & Magnusson, B. Key challenges in internal quality control: Eurachem training course and workshop held in Berlin, Accred Qual Assur (2013) 18: 269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00769-013-0991-x

 

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Scientific committee

The scientific committee comprised:

  • Vicki Barwick, LGC, UK (Chair of Eurachem Education and Training WG)
  • Bertil Magnusson, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden
  • Ricardo Bettencourt da Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Martina Hedrich, BAM, Germany
  • Michael Koch, ISWA, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Nineta Majcen, EuCheMS, Slovenia
  • David Milde, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic
  • Marina Patriarca, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy
  • Elvar Theodorsson, Linköping University, Sweden
  • Eugenia Eftimie Totu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

 

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