INTERDIVISION COMMITTEEAL WORKING PARTY ON HARMONIZATION
OF QUALITY ASSURANCE SCHEMES FOR ANALYTICAL LABORATORIES
Number: 501/10/97
Title: Description of Chemical Test Methods
Series: Quality Assurance
Coordinator(s): S. Ellison and M.
Parkany
Remarks: Close co-operation with ISO is foreseen. This project
is also related to the proposal 501/8/97 In-house method validation.
Completion Date: 2001 - project abandoned
Objective:
Chemical methods are developed to fit particular business, regulatory
and research purposes. In general, published methods relate to the testing
of particular products or classes of material against specifications.
Proper application of such standardized tests requires that they be
available and accessible. Further, in selecting methods for new tasks,
it is common to adapt published methods to suit different fields of
application. In either case, rapid selection of the most appropriate
methods requires both a knowledge of the requirements of the work and
clear and unambiguous specification of the characteristics of the method
available. Selection of appropriate methods is therefore assisted by
a consistent approach to the description of methods and their characteristics.
This ensures that: a) all important parameters are included in the description,
b) quantities are expressed in comparable units to allow direct comparison
of methods and c) indexing is comprehensive and subsequent searching
is effective. The objective of this project is to set out principles
which should be followed when documenting methods of chemical testing.
Progress:
- project abandoned
