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The Winter 2018-19 Eurachem Newsletter is now available to download in PDF format. [7 Mb] Printed copies will also be available through National members.This year's issue includes articles on new Honourary Members of Eurachem, the Revision of the SI, and news from all our working groups and from national Eurachem members.
Previous newsletters can be found on the Newsletter page.
Eurachem is pleased to announce an International Workshop on "Uncertainty from sampling and analysis for accredited laboratories" in conjunction with Eurolab and CITAC.
The workshop will be held on 19-20 November 2019. The workshop is kindly hosted by BAM at BAM headquarters, Unter den Eichen, Berlin, Germany.
Read more: Eurachem Workshop on "Uncertainty from sampling and analysis for accredited laboratories
Thanks again to our busy colleagues in
Turkey, two further Eurachem leaflets are now additionally available in Turkish: The Measurement Uncertainty and Traceability WG's leaflets on Treatment of an observed bias, and on Setting Target Measurement Uncertainty.
Thanks to our colleagues in Turkey, two Eurachem leaflets are now additionally available in Turkish: The Eurachem Education and training Working Group's overview of the main changes in the 2017 version of ISO/IEC 17025, and the Measurement Uncertainty and Traceability WG's introduction to metrological traceability.
Thanks to the efforts of our Eurachem colleagues in Russia, the Eurachem Education and training Working Group's information leaflet giving an overview of the main changes in the 2017 version of ISO/IEC 17025 is now additionally available in Russian
Eurachem has issued a minor update to its information leaflet "Traceability of Analytical Results". The leaflet underlines the importance of metrological traceability in ISO/IEC 17025 and shows briefly how traceability can be established.
The second circular for the May 2019 Eurachem workshop on Validation of targeted and non-targeted methods of analysis is now available.
Organised by Eurachem colleagues in Estonia, the workshop will be directly relevant to everyone involved in analytical measurements in laboratories such as industry, pharmaceutical, medical, environmental, food, and academia. The second circular gives additional details of the scientific programme.
Thanks to our colleagues in Estonia, two further Eurachem Information Leaflets are now additionally available in Estonian. The new Estonian translations are the information leaflet "Treatment of an uncorrected bias", and "Using repeated measurements to improve the standard uncertainty".
Eurachem's measurement uncertainty and traceability working group has launched a survey to learn more about how different people view the often difficult topic of metrological traceability. Responses will help Eurachem understand differing views and improve future Eurachem guidance.
Contribute to the survey here: http://bit.ly/EUCHM_TRC_2019
The survey is not limited to analytical chemistry and Eurachem would be pleased to have responses from other areas of measurement.
Read more: Eurachem launches survey on metrological traceability
Thanks to the efforts of our Eurachem colleagues in Georgia, the Eurachem Education and training Working Group's information leaflet giving an overview of the main changes in the 2017 version of ISO/IEC 17025 is now available in Georgian
