News items include website updates and recent news of Eurachem events and activities.
Thanks to the work of our colleagues at Eurachem Italia, the Method Validation Working Group is pleased to say that our two Supplementary Guides on "Planning and Reporting Method Validation Studies" and "Blanks in method validation" are now available in Italian, in a single volume.
Read more: Method Validation Supplements now available in Italian
Thanks to the work of our Eurachem colleagues in Germany and our CITAC colleagues in Iran, the Eurachem/CITAC joint qualitative analysis working group is pleased to announce the release of two new translations of our guide on "Assessment of performance and uncertainty in qualitative chemical analysis"., which is now additionally available in German and Farsi.
The Guide provides tools to help improve the quality of qualitative analysis and of their interpretation. The new translations are available at no charge from the Eurachem website.
Registration is now open for our May 2024 Workshop on "Quality Assurance in Chemical, Medical and Microbiological Laboratories". The event is on 13-14 May 2024, in Vilnius, Lithuania.
For more information and for registration, see the workshop website or the event page on this website.
The Autum/Winter 2023 Eurachem Newsletter is now available to download in PDF format [6.7 Mb]. Printed copies will also be available through National members.This 41st issue includes news from our working groups, updates on Eurachem guides and leaflets, reports from national Eurachem members, workshop summaries, and news on forthcoming events.
Previous newsletters can be found on the Newsletter page.
Registration is now open for our training event "Recent developments in Quality Assurance".
The event is on 12-13 march 2024, in Nicosia, Cyprus.
For more information and for registration forms, see the event page on this website.
Thanks to the work from our colleagues in Italy, the the Eurachem PT working group is pleased to announce that seven of our 2nd Edition information leaflets on aspects of Proficiency Testing are now also available in italian.
Thanks to our colleagues in Germany, our working group on Uncertainty from Sampling are pleased to announce the availability of a German 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.
Thanks to the work from our colleagues in Spain, the the Eurachem PT working group is pleased to announce that five of our recently updated information leaflets on PT are now also available in Spanish.
The Eurachem PT working group is conducting a survey to collect information on the current practice applied by PT/EQA providers for the evaluation of participants’ performance in qualitative and interpretative PT/EQA, with the aim to review current practices, identify elements for harmonization and provide guidance on this issue.
Read more: PT Working group initiates survey on scoring for non-quantitative PT
A lot of work from colleagues in Germany, Czechia, and France has generated translations of six of our recently updated information leaflets on aspects of Proficiency Testing.
