Ask the Expert Webinar series

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

About this webinar:

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.

Topics the presentation will cover:

• Current state of detection, quantitation and calibration
• Consequences of inadequate practices
• Methods to improve calibration, detection and quantification

Who should attend?

• Consultants and Engineers
• Regulatory Officials
• Data Validators
• Laboratory analysts and QA personnel

A question and answer session will immediately follow the presentation. At the conclusion of each webinar, you will be asked for your feedback and opinions for future webinar topic to be developed by TestAmerica.