Special Events

CITAC Workshop
What should you know about metrology & quality requirements
to analytical results?
21 January 2010, Tel Aviv, Israel
(in conjunction with Isranalytica 2010)

The course will cover metrological principles and practice in analytical laboratories important for quality assurance of analytical results, required by GLP & GMP standards, ISO/IEC 17025 standard, spread for competence of testing laboratories, other international documents and regulations. Use of reference materials as measurement standards, calculation of measurement uncertainty of analytical results, traceability of a routine result to national and international measurement standards and System International of Units (SI), interlaboratory comparisons and proficiency testing are the topics of the course.

This course is suited to analysts, quality specialists, metrologists in chemistry and managers of analytical laboratories.

You will learn:

• Introduction to metrology and quality in chemistry.
• A practical guide to chemical metrology and pharmaceutical quality.
• Exploiting the potential of reference materials and accompanying information by different laboratories
• Different approaches to estimation of measurement uncertainty in analytical chemistry.
• Metrological traceability of measurement results in chemistry: concepts and implementation.
• Metrological traceability in analytical spectrophotometric instrument qualification.
  

Issues to be covered

• Basic principles of metrology & quality in chemistry; international organizations in the field, their documents and projects; calibration, compliance assessment, interlaboratory comparisons and proficiency testing etc.
• Practical issues of metrology and quality in analytical laboratories of pharmaceutical industry
• Use of reference materials as measurement standards, and information accompanying reference materials, for calibration of analytical instruments, quality control, proficiency testing and other purposes
• Evaluation of measurement uncertainty of analytical results using different approaches
• Metrological traceability of a routine result to national and international measurement standards and System International of Units (SI)
• Metrological traceability in analytical spectrophotometric instrument qualification as an example of the concept.

Who should attend

• Laboratory personnel in analytical (quality control) and R&D laboratories
• Quality assurance personnel involved in reviewing analytical data and validation studies
• Projects coordinators and analytical laboratory managers
• Metrologists specialized in chemistry

About the Speakers

The speakers are members of the Cooperation on International Traceability in Analytical Chemistry – CITAC (www.citac.cc):

• Dr. Ilya Kuselman, Head of the Materials Department, the National Physical Laboratory of Israel (INPL), Israel
• Dr. William Koch, Chief Metrology Officer, U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), USA
• Prof. Hendrik Emons, Head of the Reference Material Unit, the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM), European Union
• Prof. Ivo Leito, Coordinator of the European consortium “Measurement Science in Chemistry”, Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu, Estonia
• Prof. Paul De Bièvre, Independent Consultant on Metrology in Chemistry, Editor–in-Chief of the International Journal «Accreditation and Quality Assurance» (Springer), Belgium
• Dr. Jerry Messman, Managing Director, Stranaska Scientific LLC, USA

Registration fees:

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