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