Recent news
News items include website updates and recent news of Eurachem events and activities.
- Details
-
Published: Thursday, 11 November 2021 09:30
The Eurachem/CITAC joint qualitative analysis working group is pleased to announce the release of a new guide on "Assessment of performance and uncertainty in qualitative chemical analysis". The new Guide aims to provide tools to help improve the quality of qualitative analysis and of their interpretation.
Read more: New Guide on performance and uncertainty in qualitative analysis
- Details
-
Published: Friday, 22 October 2021 15:49
EUROLAB and Eurachem have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding to enhance cooperation on key topics of relevance for the laboratory community. The two organisations will work closely together to further develop the relationship, undertake collaborative tasks, and exchange expertise on topics of common interest.
Read more: EUROLAB and Eurachem sign new cooperation agreement
- Details
-
Published: Monday, 06 September 2021 21:39
Eurachem and CITAC are pleased to announce a joint CITAC/Eurachem workshop on "Assessment of Performance and Uncertainty in Qualitative Chemical Analysis", with the kind support of the Singapore Health Sciences Authority. The workshop will introduce new Eurachem guidance on performance and uncertainty in qualitative analysis, and discuss the assessment of performance for qualitative test methods, how to decidetheir fitness for purpose, and how the quality of these analyses can be reported to give an indication of confidence.
The workshop will be conducted as a Webinar in January 2022.
Find out more >>
- Details
-
Published: Tuesday, 24 August 2021 12:15
Eurachem and NMKL are pleased to announce that on 16 August 2021, Vicki Barwick (Eurachem Chair) and Eystein Oveland (NMKL Secretary General) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the aim of fostering closer links and providing opportunities for collaboration between the two organisations.
Read more: Eurachem and NMKL sign Memorandum of Understanding
- Details
-
Published: Wednesday, 21 July 2021 14:40
At the Eurachem General Assembly in May 2021, two Executive Committee (EC) members – Kyriacos Tsimillis (Cyprus) and Wolfhard Wegscheider (Austria) – were re-appointed, and we welcomed a new Elected member, Helen Cantwell, of Eurachem Ireland.
Read more: Meet our new Executive Committee Members
- Details
-
Published: Monday, 28 June 2021 21:24
Thanks to the work of our colleagues in Ukraine, the Eurachem Method Validation Working Group is pleased to publish a Ukrainian translation of our Validation Guide Supplement on the planning and reporting of validation studies.
The planning supplement is in the form of a template for planning the evaluation of chosen performance characteristics, which can form the basis of a validation report. The supplement also contains a checklist to assist with validation planning.
Download the Planning supplement here >>
- Details
-
Published: Tuesday, 25 May 2021 21:05
Thanks to our colleagues at Eurachem-ES and Eurolab-ES in Spain, Eurachem has published a new Spanish translation of the 2nd edition of the Eurachem/CITAC Guide "Measurement Uncertainty Arising from Sampling".
The Guide describes various methods that can be used to estimate the uncertainties arising from the processes of sampling and the physical preparation of samples. It is intended primarily for specialists such as sampling planners and for analytical chemists who need to estimate the uncertainty associated with their measurement results.
Download the Guide here >>
Thanks to some great work by our colleagues in Eurolab Germany, we are pleased to say that Eurachem now has THREE new German translations of different information leaflets. The leaflets newly available in German are "What is the uncertainty factor?", covering a useful method of summarising large relative uncertainties; the recent second edition of our leaflet "Use of uncertainty information in compliance assessment"; and the introductory leaflet "The importance of method validation".
Thanks to the our Eurachem colleagues in Finland, the 