The Eurachem reading list

10. Internal quality control

ISO Guide 80:2014. Guidance for the in-house preparation of quality control materials (QCMs) (www.iso.org)
ISO 7870-1:2019. Control charts – Part 1: General guidelines (www.iso.org)
ISO 7870-2:2023. Control charts – Part 2: Shewhart control charts (www.iso.org)
ISO 7870-3:2020. Control charts – Part 3: Acceptance control charts (www.iso.org)
ISO 7870-4:2021. Control charts – Part 4: Cumulative sum charts (www.iso.org)
ISO/TS 13530:2009. Water quality – Guidance on analytical quality control for chemical and physicochemical water analysis (www.iso.org)

Internal Quality ConTROLL, Handbook for chemical laboratories, Edition 5.1, Nordtest Report TR569, 2018 (www.nordtest.info)

Eurolab cookbooks (https://www.eurolab.org/pubs-cookbooks)
- Doc No. 20, Planning of activities to ensure the validity of test results, revision no. 3, 12/2020
AMC Technical Briefs, RSC (AMC Technical Briefs, RSC,( https://www.rsc.org/membership-and-community/connect-with-others/join-scientific-networks/subject-communities/analytical-science-community/amc/technical-briefs/):):
- AMC TB 51-2012, Quality control of routine sampling in chemical analysis
- AMC TB 49-2011, Sporadic blunders
- AMC TB 46-2010, Internal quality control in routine analysis
- AMC TB 12-2003, The J-chart: a simple plot that combines the capabilities of Shewhart and cusum charts, for use in analytical quality control
- AMC TB 09-2001, A simple fitness-for-purpose control chart based on duplicate results obtained from routine test materials

M. Thompson, B. Magnusson, Methodology in internal quality control of chemical analysis, Accred. Qual. Assur., 2013, 18, 271-278, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00769-013-0955-1
M. J. Gardner, Quality control techniques for chemical analysis: some current shortcomings and possible future developments, Accred. Qual. Assur., 2007, 12, 653-657, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00769-007-0314-1
M. Thompson, R. Wood, Harmonized guidelines for internal quality control in analytical chemistry laboratories, Pure Appl. Chem., 1995, 67, 49-56, https://doi.org/10.1515/iupac.67.0135
Petersen, C. Ricós, D. Stöckl, J. C. Libeer, H. Baadenhuijsen, C. Fraser and L. Thienpont, Proposed guidelines for the internal quality control of analytical results in the medical laboratory, Eur J Clin. Chem. Clin. Biochem., 1996, 34, 983-99. https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm.1996.34.12.983
Ricós, P. Fernandez-Calle, M. C. Perich, and J. O. Westgard, Internal quality control – past, present and future trends, Advances in Laboratory Medicine / Avances en Medicina de Laboratorio, 2022, 3(3), 253-262. https://doi.org/10.1515/almed-2022-0028