Detection, Quantification and Calibration: Impacts on Data Quality in Environmental Chemistry

Ask the Expert Webinar Series
June 23, 2011
1:30pm EST


Over the last 20-30 years there have been tremendous advances in analytical instrumentation - enabling faster analysis with better precision and accuracy than ever before. We are also responding to needs for ever lower reporting limits. Adoption of The NELAC Institute (TNI) standards has also helped to improve and standardize quality control procedures across the board.

However, when we look at the fundamental techniques that we use to translate instrument response into data of "known and documented quality" - calibration, detection and quantification - nothing much has changed. This webinar will examine the current state of the art for establishing these critical method properties, and will propose some possible avenues for improvement.

The presenter is Chair of the TNI Environmental Monitoring Methods Expert Committee, currently tasked with developing new standards pertaining to detection, quantification and calibration techniques.

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