Harmonized guidelines for singlelaboratory validation of methods of analysis

Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 74, No. 5, pp. 835–855, 2002.
© 2002 IUPAC
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY
ANALYTICAL, APPLIED, CLINICAL, INORGANIC, AND
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY DIVISIONS
INTERDIVISIONAL WORKING PARTY FOR HARMONIZATION OF
QUALITY ASSURANCE SCHEMES FOR ANALYTICAL LABORATORIES*

HARMONIZED GUIDELINES FOR SINGLELABORATORY VALIDATION OF METHODS OF
ANALYSIS
(IUPAC Technical Report)
Resulting from the Symposium on Harmonization of Quality Assurance Systems for Analytical
Laboratories, Budapest, Hungary, 4–5 November 1999, held under the sponsorship of IUPAC, ISO, and AOAC International
Prepared for publication by
MICHAEL THOMPSON1, STEPHEN L. R. ELLISON2, AND ROGER WOOD3,‡
1Department of Chemistry, Birkbeck College (University of London), London WC1H 0PP, UK;
2Laboratory of the Government Chemist, Queens Road, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 0LY, UK;
3Food

Standards Agency, c/o Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich,
NR4 7UA, UK

*Membership of the Working Party during 1997–2000 was as follows:
Chairman: A. Fajgelj, 1997– , (IAEA, Austria); Members: K. Bergknut (Norway); Carmen Camara (Spain);
K. Camman (Germany); Jyette Molin Christensen (Denmark); S. Coates (AOAC Int., USA); P. De Bièvre
(Belgium); S. L. R. Ellison (UK); T. Gills (USA); J. Hlavay (Hungary); D. G. Holcombe (UK); P. T. Holland (New
Zealand); W. Horwitz (USA); A. Kallner (Sweden); H. Klich (Germany); E. A. Maier (Belgium); C. Nieto De
Castro (Portugal); M. Parkany (Switzerland); J. Pauwels (Belgium); M. Thompson (UK); M. J. Vernengo
(Argentina); R. Wood (UK).
‡Corresponding

author

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